bioinnovel Chapter 403 Return to the Ruins Base
Chapter 403 Return to the Ruins Base
As the golden light of Mars spread across the South Heavenly Gate city wall, Xu Zheng stood barefoot at the deepest part of the Guixu foundation.
His right hand rested on the pale gold line on his chest, while his left hand cradled the core of the stone embryo.
There is still a tiny misalignment between the pulsating frequency of the silvery-white crystal on the core surface and the heartbeat frequency of the larva deep in the foundation.
The degree of misalignment was so small that even the core fragments of Mount Sumeru could not detect it, but the heart network of the Ruins could detect it.
That slight misalignment was the aftershock of the Great Sage's detonation of the law vortex in the old domain, which remained inside the foundation of the Ruins of Return. The aftershock slowly spread along the law patterns of the white rock layer.
When it spread to the core of the foundation, a portion of it was automatically absorbed by the chaotic life laws within the larva's body. After absorption, the larva's heartbeat frequency underwent a very slight shift.
The direction of the deviation is not disorder; it is the larva actively adjusting its heart rate to adapt to the law fluctuations of the aftershocks of the eon.
It is evolving on its own.
"The larva is absorbing the aftershocks of the cataclysmic event. It has taken the remnants of the laws left by the Great Sage in the old domain as new nutrients for the laws. After absorbing them, the chaotic life law patterns in its body are denser than before."
"Calibration is no longer needed. It's not passively affected by interference; it's actively absorbing it. After absorption is complete, its sensitivity to changes in membrane wall density will be even higher than before."
Xu opened his eyes and put the stone core back into his bosom.
Eros stood on a white rock plateau at the edge of the Ruins Foundation, not yet completely covered by pale gold moss.
The almost completely transparent law membrane surrounding his body swirled slightly in the faint golden law glow of the Guixu foundation.
The rotation rhythm of the three law clauses inside the crystal of the draft agreement on his chest was completely synchronized with the frequency of the law signals coming from the direction of the old domain.
Upon hearing Xu's words, he raised his right hand from his side, palm facing up, and the crystal of law reappeared in his palm.
"The repair progress of the original laws of the old domain is accelerating. Based on the current speed, the repair will be completed much earlier than expected."
"I need to know the contents of the statement of attitude to be released after the repair is completed in order to win over enough swing parties in the vote within the third branch."
"Can the heart network of the Ruins detect the nascent law signal of the Old Domain's attitude statement in advance? Before the statement is officially released, the origin of the Old Domain's laws will release an extremely weak pre-pulse of laws during the final stage of self-repair."
"The pre-pulse does not contain a complete statement of attitude, but it does contain the core law frequency of the statement. If we can capture this pre-pulse, we can analyze the basic stance of the statement in advance and initiate the voting process within the third branch in advance."
"What frequency band is the prepulse in?" Ruins turned to look at Eros.
"The core law frequency band of the origin of the laws of the old domain. That band is extremely narrow and ancient, and it has a very slight overlap with the frequency of the chaotic original color light on the Pangu Axe, but it is more primitive and more fundamental."
"Capturing the pre-pulse requires a law-perception power that is completely in sync with it. In the existing law-perception system of the Primordial World, only your heart meridian network can cover that waveband."
"However, the cardiac pulsation network covers three law systems: the foundation of the Ruins, the membrane wall nodes, and the entrance to the Ruins. If the prepulse of the old domain is monitored at the same time, the law tolerance of the pulsation network will be pushed to the limit."
"After reaching its limit, the pulse network will automatically enter a protective hibernation period. During the hibernation period, all law monitoring of the Guixu Foundation will be interrupted."
"Although the interruption is extremely short, if any residual detectors from the second branch approach the outer side of the membrane during the interruption, Nantianmen will temporarily lose its early warning capability."
Eros's voice was extremely calm and steady.
"A brief interruption of the warning is acceptable. Nezha is currently collecting fragments of the will of all living beings on the outskirts of the second branch's origin. Once the fragments are collected, the probe debris of the second branch will be completely unable to obtain any samples of the primordial laws."
"The core of the laws inside the debris will automatically enter a dormant state after losing the ability to analyze samples. The debris in the dormant state does not have the ability to actively approach the membrane wall."
"The capture window for the Old Domain Prepulse is when the restoration of the Old Domain Laws is about to be completed, at which point the remnants of the second branch have all gone into hibernation."
"The interruption of the early warning system poses no real risk. However, pushing the pulse network to its limit will lead to another problem. The flint beacon rune at the entrance to the Ruins of Desolation requires continuous resonance of the heart pulse network to maintain its anchored state."
"If the heart's vascular network enters a protective dormancy, the resonance of laws between the beacon runes and the Southern Heavenly Gate will be temporarily interrupted."
"After the interruption, the entrance to the Land of Ruins will not drift again, but the Great Sage will temporarily lose real-time communication with the Southern Heavenly Gate inside the entrance."
Xu's voice was very steady, and he pronounced each word very clearly.
"The Great Sage can withstand the temporary loss of communication. He is guarding his mother in the Ruins of Nothingness. His mother is still recovering from her illness, and there are no external laws interfering in that place."
"The communication being cut off simply means he'll be stuck in the core of the nest a little longer. Once communication is restored, his first words will definitely be, 'I've finished eating my peaches, so send me a few more.'"
"But Nezha said that the peaches on Flower Fruit Mountain are not ripe yet, and this year's peach season is more than half a month later than in previous years."
"If the Great Sage really wants peaches, he'll have to get them from the ration bags of those remaining soldiers on the South Heavenly Gate city wall. Old Zhang's fried dough sticks are plentiful, but they get soggy after a while, and the Great Sage is picky and won't eat soft ones."
Su Fan's voice came from the broken mirror.
He sat on a low stool at the fried dough stick stall, his phone resting on a vinegar bottle, still live-streaming, with the chat screen flooded with comments.
He stuffed the last bite of the fried dough stick into his mouth, chewed it twice, swallowed it, picked up his phone, and said something to the camera.
"The Great Sage is guarding his mother in the Ruins of Desolation; communications may be cut off for a while. We'll resume communication once the outage is over."
Then he turned off the live stream, stuffed his phone into his pocket, hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder, and flew towards the South Heavenly Gate, stepping on the golden law membrane.
On the South Heavenly Gate city wall, Yang Jian pieced the two broken mirrors together, and all four law signals on the mirror surface stabilized.
He looked up and saw Su Fan walk in through the narrow opening in the membrane wall, turning the shattered mirror towards him.
"Nezha is recovering the fragments faster than expected from the outskirts of the second branch's origin. All the fragments of the will of all living beings in the Yu Kou traces have been recovered, and he is now flying back."
"The calibration of the Ruins was completed ahead of schedule. The larvae are actively absorbing the aftershocks of the cataclysm, so the calibration itself is no longer needed."
"The flint beacon runes at the entrance to the Land of Ruins have been anchored. The Great Sage is crouching in the core of the nest shell, using the Chaos Stone Embryo Imprint on his Golden Cudgel to carve an extremely deep fixed coordinate on the healing membrane wall."
"After he finished marking the coordinates, he sent back a pulse of law, containing only one sentence. The sentence was that Nezha asked him for peaches, and he said, 'I've finished eating all my peaches, Nezha, do you have any more?'"
Su Fan stuck the Pangu Axe at his feet.
"We'll owe you the peaches for now. We'll have Nezha pick them from Flower Fruit Mountain when he gets back. As for the old domain pre-pulse that Eros mentioned, the Ruins' heart network hasn't captured the specific time window yet."
Xu walked out from the edge of the Guixu Crack, his bare feet stepping on the city bricks, his right hand pressed against his chest.
He closed his eyes, sensed for a moment, and then opened them.
"The repair process of the original laws of the old domain is accelerating, and the release window for the pre-pulse has been locked."
"It's today. The full content of the Old Domain's attitude statement will be officially released in a very short time after the pre-pulse is released. Eros, can the core law frequency of the pre-pulse be directly translated into law clauses that can be used for voting in the Third Branch Council?"
"Yes. The core law frequency of the pre-pulse contains the basic attitude of the Old Domain towards the laws of the Primordial Beings. There are only three possible attitudes: support, neutrality, and opposition."
"The three possible laws correspond to different frequency bands, and I can determine the basic direction of the attitude the moment I receive the pre-pulse."
"If the vote is in favor or neutral, the voting result within the third branch can be locked in advance. Both favoring and neutral can help me persuade the third faction and some swing voters, making a majority vote a foregone conclusion. If the vote is against, we need to activate the alternative plan."
Eros held the crystal of law in his palm up to his eyes, and the rotation of the three law clauses inside the crystal accelerated slightly for a moment when he finished speaking.
"What are the alternative plans?" Su Fan asked.
"If the old domain declares its opposition, it means that the original law of the old domain was interfered with by the residual signals of the encrypted communication of the second branch during the repair process, which affected the law's judgment."
"Although the second branch detector was knocked away, the remnants of the law fuses they had buried in the old domain law vortex have not completely dissipated."
"The wreckage contains extremely faint pulses of encryption laws, and the frequency of these pulses overlaps very slightly with the repair frequency of the original laws of the old domain."
"If the remains continue to release pulses during the restoration of the old domain, the pulses will form a very weak layer of law misleading within the origin of the laws of the old domain. This misleading layer will cause the old domain to have a skewed attitude towards the primordial world."
"This deviation can be corrected. Use the will of all living beings on the Pangu Axe to cleave a rift in the laws around the origin of the old domain's laws, and strip the law pulses of the remnants out of the repair frequency."
"After the separation, the old domain will re-release its stance statement, and the revised statement will not be one of opposition. The revision process needs to be completed before the old domain's stance statement is officially released."
"There is a time window between the pre-pulse and the formal release, a window long enough for Pangu's axe to cleave once."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe out of the city bricks, and the faint chaotic light on the axe blade flickered slightly in the golden light of Mars.
"Then prepare to strike. Once the pre-pulse arrives, Eros will analyze the stance. If it's supportive or neutral, proceed with the voting process immediately."
"If there is opposition, I will take the Pangu Axe to the Old Realm and strip away the Residual Pulse before its official release."
"While capturing the pre-pulse, the heart network of the Ruins synchronized with me the precise location of the remnants surrounding the origin of the Old Domain's laws."
"The pulse to strip away the debris requires the will of all living beings and the original laws of the old domain to be completely synchronized in frequency. Is the calibration precision of the heart's pulse network sufficient?"
"That's enough. While monitoring the pre-pulse, the cardiac pulse network will automatically capture the law pulse frequency of the remnant. The subtle difference between the two frequencies can be directly translated into the law coordinates of the remnant outside the original law source of the old domain."
"The coordinate error won't be too large, enough for the Pangu Axe to strike precisely. However, the stripping of the remnant pulse needs to be done at a very close distance to the outer edge of the Old Domain's Law Origin. The Law density inside the Old Domain is extremely high, and the decay rate of the will of all living beings after being poured into the axe blade will be faster than in other areas."
"The angle and depth of the slash must be precise to the limit, otherwise not only will the remnant pulse not be removed, but the self-repairing law patterns on the outer edge of the original law of the old domain will be shattered."
Xu removed his hand from his chest.
"What is the amplitude of the vibration of the law membrane on the outer edge of the old domain?" Su Fan asked.
"The oscillation range is extremely narrow. During the self-repair period, the repulsive force of the original laws of the old domain is reduced to a minimum, but the structure of the law membrane is extremely unstable during the repair period."
"If the angle at which the Pangu Axe strikes is slightly off, the will of all living beings on the axe blade will be bounced back by the vibration of the law membrane. After bouncing back, the impact will be transmitted along the axe handle to the thin golden line in the palm."
"If the will of all beings within the fine lines is disrupted by the shock force, the synchronization of the laws of the entire golden pattern network of the city wall will be temporarily interrupted."
"How long will the interruption last?"
"It won't be long. The cardiac network can resynchronize in a very short time, but during the interruption, the sensory sensitivity on the outer side of the membrane will temporarily drop to a very low level."
"If any remnants of the second branch probes were to approach at that time, Nantianmen would temporarily lose its early warning capability."
"No. The debris from the second branch detector is dormant and cannot be approached. But there are more than just the second branch detectors on the outer side of the membrane. The debris from the third branch's already shut-down monitoring stations is still drifting."
"If the statement of attitude from the old domain is passed by the internal vote of the third branch, the remnants of those monitoring stations will be automatically recovered. If the vote fails, a factional split will occur within the third branch during the voting process, and some factions will unilaterally restart the monitoring stations after the split."
"Restarting the monitoring station will take time, but during the restart process, the core of the laws inside the monitoring station's wreckage will be temporarily activated."
"If the law synchronization of the city wall's golden pattern network happens to be interrupted at that time, the activation signal will be misinterpreted by the South Heavenly Gate as a signal of the detector approaching."
Eros's voice was extremely calm and steady.
What will a misjudgment trigger?
"Misjudgment itself will not trigger any actual defensive measures. The law defense mechanism of Nantianmen is in a semi-dormant state during the period when the draft agreement is in effect. After sensing the law signal, it will only record it and will not actively attack."
"However, the misjudgment record will be simultaneously transmitted to the protocol monitoring archive at the origin of the third branch. The archive contains records of Nantianmen sensing the signal of the third branch monitoring station during the protocol, which will be used by the second branch to attack the neutral position of the third branch in the joint meeting."
"They'll say the third branch is superficially neutral but secretly restarts the monitoring station, violating the protocol. In reality, it's just normal activation during the wreckage recovery process, but the second branch won't care about that."
"Then let's nip the possibility of misjudgment in the bud. Before the heart network of the Ruins enters protective hibernation, it will mark all the law frequencies of the remnants of all monitoring stations in the third branch and upload them to the perception array of the core fragment of Mount Sumeru."
"During the interruption of the synchronization of the Golden Pattern Network Law of the City Wall, the core fragment will automatically take over the monitoring function. After the Buddhist Law and the Law of the Path of All Beings sealed inside it are integrated, the recognition accuracy of the frequency of the law of cause and effect outside the domain is high enough."
"The normal activation signal from the monitoring station debris and the proximity signal from the second branch detector have extremely subtle differences in frequency, which the core debris can distinguish. After this distinction, the normal activation signal will not be recorded as a detection activity."
Su Fan hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder and walked to the center of the city wall.
He placed his left hand on the surface of the core fragment of Mount Sumeru. The golden line in his palm activated automatically when it came into contact with the Buddhist law patterns inside the fragment, and the will of all beings surged out from the line and poured into the fragment.
The law runes inside the fragment stopped flowing the moment they received the will of the Dao of All Beings, and when they resumed flowing, the pace of flow was at least 30% faster than before.
The core fragment's sensory sensitivity was pushed to its limit.
"The core debris's sensing sensitivity has been adjusted to the limit, enabling it to distinguish between the monitoring station's wreckage activation signal and the detector's approach signal."
"Ruins, before entering hibernation, the heart network transmitted all the frequency data of the monitoring station debris into the core fragment."
"Eros, if the attitude is against it after the pre-pulse is captured, you should suspend the voting process first. After I strip away the remnant pulse, the old domain will release the attitude statement again before the voting is restarted."
"If the attitude is supportive or neutral, initiate the voting process directly, and simultaneously transmit the real-time voting data of the three factions within the third branch to Yang Jian. If any abnormal fluctuations in the vote count occur during the voting process, Shattered Mirror will be able to detect them in advance."
Yang Jian pieced the two broken mirrors together, and three dark purple waveforms of the real-time law fluctuations of the origin of the third branch appeared on the mirror surface.
Each waveform has a different frequency, corresponding to one of the three different factions within the third branch.
He turned the shattered mirror toward Su Fan.
"The frequencies of all three waveforms are currently stable. I will monitor the frequency changes of each waveform in real time after the voting process begins."
"If abnormal fluctuations occur, the Shattered Mirror will automatically mark the law frequency of the abnormal faction within a very short time when the fluctuation reaches its peak, and the marked data will be synchronously transmitted to Eros."
"Eros has the right to temporarily freeze the vote, and can restart the vote after the freeze. However, during the freeze, the Third Branch Council will automatically initiate an investigation to investigate the reasons for the freeze."
"If the investigation concludes that the freeze is without justifiable reason, Eros's voting rights in the council will be temporarily suspended."
"Who will hold his voting rights on his behalf after the freeze?" Su Fan asked.
"The automatic system of the third branch's consensus will act on its behalf. During the freeze period, the automatic system will vote by default according to the third branch's rule convention, which is to maintain the status quo."
"That means continuing with the contact assessment plan. This default vote is not what Eros wanted."
Yang Jian turned the shattered mirror toward Eros.
Eros remained silent for a moment.
He raised his right hand from his side, and the crystal of law reappeared in his palm. This time, all three law clauses inside the crystal lit up, and the three clauses rotated on their own inside the crystal.
"If there are any irregularities in the vote, I will not exercise the right to freeze votes. If the right to freeze votes is exercised, the faction within the third branch that advocates maintaining the status quo will seize the opportunity to launch an attack, interpreting the freeze as my personal will superseding the rules of the joint council."
"Even if the old domain's stance is in support, the voting result may be invalidated due to procedural disputes. My alternative is not to freeze the vote. Instead, I will publicly upload the pre-pulse data of the old domain's stance statement to the Third Branch Joint Law Public Archive before the vote begins."
"After the data is uploaded, all factions can access the pre-pulse data before the vote, and the transparency of the vote after access is sufficient to offset any procedural disputes. The risk of this approach is that after the pre-pulse data is uploaded, the second branch can also access it."
"They will know the Old Domain's stance in advance. If the stance is against it, the Second Branch will preemptively submit a motion to the Joint Council that the Old Domain has rejected the Primordial World, thus locking in the voting direction before the vote even begins."
"Even if I remove the remnant pulse and correct the old domain's attitude after the lock is established, the corrected statement can no longer be used as a basis for voting. This is because the rules of the council do not allow for secondary corrections to archived pre-pulse data."
"Then don't upload the prepulse. The prepulse only circulates between you, Ruins, and me."
"After analyzing the attitude and direction, if it is supportive or neutral, a vote is initiated directly. During the voting process, the pre-pulse data is used as internal evidence and archived in the voting record. The archived data is not uploaded to the public archive."
"If you oppose it, you should first suppress the voting process. After I have separated the remnants and corrected the old domain's attitude, the official statement on the re-release of the old domain will be submitted to the joint council as the basis for the vote."
"This way, the second branch won't get the pre-pulse data, and there won't be any procedural disputes in the voting process. The only risk is blocking the voting process's time window."
"After the old domain pre-pulse is released, the official statement will not be long after. If the stripping is not completed before the official release and the correction fails, the old domain's stance will be officially recorded as opposition."
Su Fan lowered the Pangu Axe from his shoulder, the blade touching the ground.
"That's enough. The stripping of the debris pulse doesn't take long, and the time window between the old domain pre-pulse and the actual release is just right. But there's a variable in the stripping process."
"The exact location of the remnant pulse outside the origin of the Old Domain Laws is not fixed; it drifts slowly with the oscillation amplitude of the Old Domain Laws membrane. The drift speed is not fast, but the drift trajectory is extremely irregular."
"The cardiac network needs to continuously track the drift trajectory of debris, but it briefly enters a state of extreme operation when capturing pre-pulse. In this extreme operation state, the network's tracking accuracy of debris drift trajectory will decrease."
"After descent, the cleaving coordinates of the stripping operation will have extremely slight errors. Whether the error can be controlled within a safe range depends on one detail."
"When Pangu's axe cleaved in, were the remnant pulses and the oscillation frequencies of the membrane wall of the old domain synchronized? If they were synchronized, the error would be zero. If they were not synchronized, the error would be amplified by the oscillation force of the membrane wall."
"What are the conditions for being on the same frequency?" Su Fan asked.
"The frequency of the debris pulse is the residual band of the second branch encrypted communication, and the internal law structure of the band overlaps with the encrypted communication frequency of the detector."
"The oscillation frequency of the membrane wall is the natural law fluctuation generated when the original laws of the old domain are repaired. There is only one condition for the two frequencies to be in sync."
"Use something that resonates with both frequencies to build a bridge of laws between the debris and the membrane. This thing must simultaneously possess the resonant characteristics of the second branch of the causal law frequency and the original law frequency of the old domain."
"Only one thing on the South Heavenly Gate city wall meets this condition: the draft agreement crystal. The crystal was forged by Eros using the third branch of the law, and it contains the frequencies of the causal laws of the three branches. At the same time, the crystal was activated by the signal of the Land of Ruins released by the origin of the old domain's laws during its stay in the Ruins."
"The internal structure of the crystal has generated an extremely subtle resonance with the laws of the ancient domain. Using it as a bridge, the two frequencies can resonate. However, the crystal is currently embedded in the very center of Eros's chest core, and removing it will temporarily affect the law communication channel between him and the origin of the third branch."
Eros held the crystal of law in his palm up to his eyes, watching the three law clauses inside the crystal slowly rotate.
After a moment of silence, he took the crystal out from the very center of his chest core, held it in his palm, and handed it to Su Fan.
"I can tolerate the brief interruption of the law communication channel. The revision of the old domain's attitude statement is more important than the communication interruption. This crystal has been sealed in my core for several days, and all three law clauses within it have been activated, which is enough to build a bridge."
"Just return it to me when you're done. But during the bridge-building process, the crystal will be briefly exposed to the density of the laws of the old domain's origin. During this exposure, the law structure inside the crystal may be eroded in reverse by the original law frequency of the old domain's origin."
"Erosion will not destroy the crystal's law structure, but it will leave an extremely fine imprint of the old domain's law on the crystal's surface. The imprint will not affect the crystal's function, but it will permanently mark the crystal as a symbiotic entity of the primordial extraterrestrial law within the old domain's law system."
"Once marked, this crystal can no longer be used to sign any internal law agreements between extraterrestrial gods. The old domain's law system does not recognize marked crystals as law carriers."
Su Fan took the crystal and looked down at the three slowly rotating law clauses inside it.
He placed the crystal on the blade of the Pangu Axe, allowing the chaotic primordial light on the blade to shine through the extremely thin membrane of laws on the crystal's surface and into its interior.
The three clauses flashed simultaneously under the light, and after the flash, the law patterns on the crystal surface and the chaotic original color on the blade of Pangu Axe resonated in a very subtle way.
"The mark of the Old Realm is not contamination, but certification. A crystallization personally marked by the very source of the Old Realm's laws carries more weight than any internal law agreement of any extraterrestrial god."
"If the third branch wants to reposition itself within the old domain's legal system, this marked crystal will be the strongest legal basis."
Su Fan put the crystal back into his arms.
Eros did not speak.
The almost completely transparent law membrane surrounding his body trembled slightly when he finished speaking, and after the tremor, the law patterns flowing on the surface of the membrane stabilized again.
After stabilizing, he placed his right hand on the spot in the center of his chest where the crystal had been embedded.
"After the crystal is taken, the communication between me and the origin of the third branch will be temporarily downgraded."
"During the downgrade period, you can only receive but not send, but the receiving function is sufficient to monitor the real-time movements of the three factions within the third branch before the vote begins."
"If the attitude is against it after the pre-pulse is captured, I will continue to monitor the internal movements of the third branch during the process of you peeling away the debris and correcting the attitude of the old domain."
"If the second branch makes any unusual movements during this period, the Shattered Mirror will issue a warning simultaneously."
Xu closed his eyes and placed his right hand on the pale gold line on his chest.
The entire sensory capacity of the cardiac network extends simultaneously in three directions.
The heartbeat frequency of the larva deep within the Guixu foundation, the repair progress of the original laws of the old domain outside the membrane wall, and the drift trajectory of the pulses of the remnants surrounding the original laws of the old domain in the deepest part of the void.
The three-directional data are synchronously translated into specific information within the cardiac vascular network, and then the eyes open.
"The repair progress of the original laws of the old domain is nearing a critical point. The release time of the pre-pulse is extremely close, and the drift trajectory of the remnant pulse has just experienced an extremely subtle law oscillation."
"The drift direction has temporarily stabilized after the oscillation. The stabilization period covers the time window between the pre-pulse release and the official statement. Ready to capture."
The golden light of Mars flickered very subtly as he finished speaking.
After the flash, an extremely weak and ancient pulse of law came from the direction of the old domain. The frequency of the pulse was extremely low and narrow, so narrow that no one on the South Heavenly Gate city wall could sense it except for the heart network of the Ruins.
Xu pressed his right hand tightly against the pale gold line on his chest, and his heart's pulsation network entered a state of extreme operation the moment it received the pre-pulse.
He analyzed the frequency of the laws within the pre-pulse layer by layer in his chest cavity. When he reached the core, he opened his eyes, and a very faint dark purple halo was reflected in his pale golden pupils from the direction of the old domain.
"The core law frequency analysis of the pre-pulse is complete. The fundamental attitude of the Old Domain Laws towards the laws of the Primordial Beings is supportive. However, a piece of law information is sealed at the deepest level of the pre-pulse."
"After the original source of the Old Domain Laws released the signal of the Land of Ruins, the Chaos Stone Embryo Imprint used by the Great Sage when anchoring coordinates at the entrance of the Land of Ruins was sensed by the Law Secretion System inside the core of the Land of Ruins's Nest Shell."
"The core of the nest shell transmitted the law frequency of the Chaos Stone Embryo Imprint back to the Old Domain. After the source of the laws of the Old Domain sensed the imprint, it triggered an extremely ancient law memory."
"That memory is the third sentence that Pangu spoke to the living beings in the pile of fragments of the nest shell in the Land of Ruins after he cleaved the first axe. You only received the first two sentences when the fragments were put back in place. You didn't hear the third sentence because the frequency of the law of the living beings' healing membrane was interfered with."
"The original laws of the old domain sealed this third sentence for 30,000 years, and now it has been transmitted back through the pre-pulse."
"The third sentence is: When she wakes up, tell her that there are no enemies outside the Chaos, only the Void. If anything in the Void disturbs her sleep, I will use my axe to protect her."
Su Fan's hand, which was holding the axe handle, froze in mid-air.
He put down the Pangu Axe, blade facing down, and stuck it at his feet.
Silence reigned on the city wall.
A moment later, Nezha's voice burst out from the shattered mirror. He had just finished retrieving the last fragment of the will of all living beings from the last healing mark. He was carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear and flying back from the origin of the second branch. The flames of the Wind-Fire Wheels left two extremely long tongues of fire in the void.
"Pangu's third sentence was to shield her from the things in the void. No wonder he sealed all the axe blade fragments on the outside of the membrane, no wonder Hongjun predicted that the extraterrestrial gods would come sooner or later, no wonder Luo Hou said that Hongjun spared his life in order to complete the three original forms."
"Everything was arranged from beginning to end. Suppressing chaos was to protect her, sealing the extraterrestrial gods was to protect her, and even the Path of All Living Beings was for the same purpose."
"The Dao of All Beings is not a defensive law that was forged within the primordial world; it is a beacon left to her by Pangu. The beacon's function is not defense, but to tell everything in the void: The Land of Ruins has an owner; do not disturb it."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe from the ground and carried it on his shoulder.
The golden light of Mars shone on the faint, chaotic light on the axe blade, reflecting off his face, where the golden lines flowed steadily beneath his skin.
"The old domain's attitude is supportive. The voting process will proceed directly. Eros, can the core frequency of the prepulse be submitted directly to the third branch council as a voting criterion?"
"No formal statement is needed. Pangu's words themselves represent the highest level of recognition the Old Domain has given to the Primordial World."
"The original source of the laws of the Old Domain is the common origin of the extraterrestrial gods. It quotes Pangu's third sentence as a statement of attitude, which is equivalent to redefining the status of the Primordial World in the extraterrestrial gods' law system from an external law structure to a symbiotic law system recognized by the Old Domain."
"This definition carries more weight than any statement of attitude."
Eros removed his right hand from his chest, and the almost completely transparent membrane of law surrounding him was extremely faint in the golden light of Mars.
However, the patterns on the membrane surface that flowed all changed from a very pale dark purple to a very bright purple-gold after receiving the pre-pulse data.
He looked down at the spot in the very center of his chest where the crystal had been embedded, then spoke, his voice penetrating the law membrane on the city wall, extremely calm and steady.
"Pre-pulse data can be submitted directly to the third branch council as a basis for voting. Pangu's third statement has the authority of a law source level in the old domain law system."
"After submission, at least the third faction and most of the swing factions will vote directly in favor of the agreement. The outcome will be a foregone conclusion with a majority vote."
"After the agreement takes effect, the third branch monitoring station will be closed, the envoy will be withdrawn, and the void outside the membrane wall will be designated as the permanent territory of the Primordial World. At that time, I will become the first Law Ambassador of the Third Branch stationed in the Primordial World."
"Location of residence: Guixu. I have spotted a white rock plateau deep within the foundation of Guixu. There is no pale gold moss growing on the plateau yet, making it suitable for building a law monitoring station."
"I'll have Xu mark the coordinates of the terrace for you later. Don't spread too much of the newly grown pale gold moss on the foundation of Guixu, or it will affect the transparency of the white rock layer."
"After your monitoring station is built, the frequency of the monitoring station's laws will be synchronized with the core fragment of Mount Sumeru on the South Heavenly Gate city wall. It's not one-way monitoring, it's two-way communication."
"From now on, if there are any fluctuations in the laws of the Old Domain, Guixu will know first, and Nantianmen will know simultaneously."
Su Fan tucked the Pangu Axe into his waistband and walked to the edge of the battlement.
The golden light of Mars shone brightly behind him.
From the deepest void outside the membrane wall, a very faint pulse of law emanated from the direction of the origin of the third branch.
The pulse's frequency overlapped very slightly with the location where the crystal was originally embedded in the center of Eros's chest core, and differed very slightly from the dormant frequency of the law core inside the slumbering probe debris on the outskirts of the second branch's origin.
Yang Jian pieced the broken mirror together, and one of the three dark purple waveforms inside the third branch on the mirror surface was jumping upwards at a visible rate.
The voting process has begun.
Su Fan took his phone out of his pocket; the screen was lit up, and the live streaming app was still running.
The comments were still scrolling, but at a much slower pace than before.
One comment kept popping up, and it contained only one sentence.
"Boss, will you still be live streaming after the war is over?"
He looked down at the comment, paused his finger on the screen for a moment, and then typed a line of text.
"Broadcast. Next time we'll broadcast Return to the Ruins. Ambassador Eros's monitoring station is under construction. Please watch how the golden moss grows."
After the message was sent out, the live chat exploded.
He stuffed his phone into his pocket, slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder, and turned to walk towards the center of the city wall.
The chaotic, primordial light on the axe blade was extremely faint yet extremely steady amidst the golden light of Mars.
The gold patterns on the city wall are still there, the fragments of weapons from 10,050 people are still glowing, and the dark gold barrier on the outside of the membrane is still flowing.
The statement of attitude of the original law of the Old Domain has been officially included in the Third Branch Alliance, and the inclusion number is the First Law Symbiotic Certification of the Primordial Era of the Old Domain.
Eros stayed in Guixu, and the ruins were used to calibrate the foundation. Nezha collected the fragments, and the Great Sage guarded his mother.
Everything is still running, but the purpose of running is no longer defense, but maintenance.
From guarding to maintaining, 30,000 years, from the first axe blow of Pangu to the third sentence of Pangu.
He made the three thin golden lines on the axe handle flash one last time in the golden light of Mars, and then they disappeared into the depths of the wood grain.
The newly grown pale gold patterns on the Nantianmen city wall shone brightly in the golden light, casting the entire wall in a very faint dark gold hue.