bioinnovel Chapter 408 Attack on Guixu
Chapter 408 Attack on Guixu
The membrane of laws inside the rift trembled violently the moment Sun Wukong jumped in.
The tremor was not large, but the shockwave traveled along the inner wall of the crack into the depths of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation, and crashed into the law boundary of the gray-white shadow of the mutant, where it was bounced back by the extremely high law density inside the boundary.
The rebounding wave struck the membrane of the will of all living beings remaining at the exit of the rift, causing a ring of extremely fine golden law ripples to explode on the surface of the membrane.
When the ripples spread to the edge of the larvae's nest, they were automatically absorbed by the larvae's sensory network. After absorption, the dark red light spot in the center of the larvae's thorax twitched very slightly.
It did not alarm after it jumped.
The sensor network categorized this tremor as a normal pressure release within the fissure, without triggering any alerts.
But Xu knew that wasn't a normal release.
The cardiac network detected a faint signal of law mutation within the echo, the frequency of which was perfectly synchronized with the power of creation within the mutant.
"The Great Sage has entered the mutant. The core of law within his body automatically activated when it approached his mother's trace of law imprint, and the resulting law resonance is forming an extremely subtle law resonance within the mutant."
"The resonance frequency is currently stable, but the balance between the two laws within the mutant has been broken once by the density change of the Guixu Foundation Law. After the break, the intensity of the conflict between the two laws doubled."
"When he peels off the imprint of the law in a state of resonance, the intensity of the resistance will be entirely focused on the core of the law within his body. The core can withstand it, but how long it can withstand it depends on the reaction of the power of creation within the mutant."
Xu's voice came from the shattered mirror, each word pronounced very steadily.
Su Fan stood directly above the crevice, holding the handle of the Pangu Axe in both hands, with the axe blade embedded in the rock strata at the edge of the crevice entrance.
The will of all beings surged from the golden thread in the palm and poured into the axe handle, flowing along the axe blade into the law membrane inside the crack, continuously reinforcing the law structure of the membrane.
The rate of reinforcement is exactly the same as the rate at which the membrane wall is consumed by the pressure of the law of return to the rudimentary foundation.
However, the intensity of the conflict between the two laws within the mutant is rapidly increasing.
The increase was not large, but it was continuous.
Following this trend, the resistance will reach its peak during the process of the Great Sage peeling off the imprint of the law. At that time, the law pressure on the rift membrane wall will exceed the reinforcement speed.
Xu closed his eyes, focusing all the sensory power of his heart's network on the rapidly changing gray-white shadow deep within the rift.
The internal laws and structures of the mutant body were extremely blurry in the sensory field of the heart network, so blurry that only two very faint rays of light could be seen intertwined.
A dark gold hue, the power of Pangu in creating the world.
A very faint grayish-white mark was the imprint of law on the Great Sage's mother, which had been eroded by countless eons of energy.
Two beams of light intertwined in the very center of the mutant's core, forming an extremely complex spiral of laws, the spiral's rotation rhythm constantly accelerating.
With each slight increase in speed, the gray-white law-deposited layer on the mutant's outer shell expanded outwards by a fraction.
The expansion is extremely small, but each expansion leaves a very fine imprint of the law on the rift membrane wall.
Sun Wukong squatted below the spiral of laws at the very center of the mutant's core, his golden cudgel resting on his knees. The aftershocks of the great calamity on the cudgel had subsided to just a faint white halo.
The crystal of flint embers on the chest's Tanzhong acupoint shone brightly in the extremely dark and still void of laws within the mutant, its pulsation frequency perfectly synchronized with that of the gray-white law imprint within the spiral.
He slammed the golden cudgel to the ground.
There is no ground here; beneath one's feet lies the innermost layer of the mutant law's outer shell, a gray-white law slurry membrane. The rod's tail wedged into the slurry membrane several inches deep. The slurry membrane trembled slightly for a moment under the impact of the aftershocks of the calamity, and then healed itself.
After healing, the regular patterns on the surface of the slurry film are denser than before.
It learns the laws and frequencies of the aftershocks of countless eons at an extremely fast pace.
"This thing is learning from the aftershocks of my eons. Just now, I only used a tiny bit of the aftershock, and it memorized the frequency of the laws of the aftershock in a very short time."
"After memorizing this, its outer shell automatically generated extremely weak resistance. If I were to use the aftershocks of a calamity to bombard it, the first wave would be effective, but the effect of the second wave would be reduced by at least 30%."
The monkey pulled the golden cudgel out of the slurry film, flicked the tip upwards, and aimed it at the gray-white law mark inside the spiral.
The crystal of flint embers on the chest's Tanzhong acupoint exploded into a circle of extremely bright dark red flames the moment the tip of the rod was raised. The flames shot upwards along the rod, and when they reached the tip, they were enveloped by the aftershocks of the calamity, forming an extremely thin beam of dark red law light.
The beam of light struck the surface of the gray-white law imprint, and the frequency of the law inside the imprint underwent an extremely subtle change the instant it came into contact with the beam of light.
The extremely slow wriggling turned into an extremely slow pulsation, and the rhythm of the pulsation was completely in sync with the core of the law within Sun Wukong's body.
He is waking it up.
"The mark has begun to respond. The response is not fast, but it is actively moving towards me. It has stayed on my mother's scales for countless eons, and has an instinctive affinity for the core of the laws within my body."
"The peeling process doesn't require pulling; you just need to let it come closer on its own. But as it comes closer, the force that created the heavens at the other end of the spiral won't let go."
"They have become entangled in countless cosmic energies, fighting and eroding each other, forming an extremely unstable balance of laws. Now I am going to remove the mark from the spiral, and the balance will be completely broken."
"The moment the balance is broken, the power of creation will go out of control. It will rampage inside the mutant, and when it hits the mutant's outer shell of laws, it will be bounced back by the shell. After bouncing back, it will hit the core again. After repeating this several times, the mutant's outer shell of laws will be shattered."
"When the outer shell breaks, the sedimentary layer collapses. After the collapse, a large hole will be blasted out beneath the Guixu foundation, and the larvae's nest will be located above the hole."
"If the nest collapses, can the larvae move to another location beforehand?"
Su Fan's voice came from above the crack.
"No. The larvae and the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation are perfectly interlocked. Transferring them would require completely separating the interlocking patterns. The time required for this separation is much longer than the time it takes for the mutant's outer shell to shatter. There's not enough time."
"At the very moment I removed the imprint of the laws, Su Fan used the Pangu Axe to also extract the power of creation from the spiral. With both laws removed simultaneously, the spiral dissipated."
"After it disperses, there is no resistance inside the mutant, so the outer shell of the law will not break, but will only slowly collapse. This timing must be extremely precise. The moment I remove the mark, the power of creation will contract towards the center of the spiral, and only rebound after it has contracted to its limit."
"You have to strike when it has contracted to its limit. If you strike too early, the power to open the heavens and earth will not have finished contracting. If you strike too late, it will have already rebounded."
Sun Wukong held his golden cudgel horizontally in front of him, the dark red beam of law at the tip of the cudgel still continuously striking the surface of the gray-white law imprint.
The frequency of the branding pulse is accelerating, changing from an extremely slow pulse to an extremely stable, uniform pulse.
It has begun to move towards Sun Wukong on its own, at a slow but very steady pace.
The heart network of the Ruins transmitted the real-time frequency of the conflict between the two laws within the mutant to everyone above the rift.
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe from the edge of the crack, gripped it with both hands, and poured the will of all living beings into the axe blade. The extremely faint chaotic original light on the axe blade shone brightly in the extremely faint golden law glow of the Guixu foundation.
Nezha slammed his Fire-Tipped Spear against the edge of the crevice, and the Law Mark on his left shoulder, enhanced by the Pure Yang Talisman, became extremely stable in brightness.
The golden steam seeping from the edge of the mark condensed into extremely fine law patterns, the direction of which perfectly overlapped with the old scar on his left arm.
"The power of creation shrinks to its limit in an extremely short time, and the opening is formed in less than a breath. In this short time, the will of all living beings on the Pangu Axe must be completely in sync with the power of creation."
"If the precision of the synchronization is insufficient, the axe blade will be deflected when it strikes the spiral. Once deflected, the power of creation will be completely out of control."
The countdown of the opening power sensed by the heart's pulse network was simultaneously transmitted into the shattered mirror. Yang Jian stood at the edge of the Guixu foundation, and the two shattered mirrors were put together. Real-time images of the two laws inside the mutant appeared on the mirror surface.
The dark golden light in the image is rapidly contracting towards the center of the spiral, its contraction trajectory extremely stable and fast, and it is very close to the limit of contraction.
Su Fan raised the Pangu Axe above his head, aiming the blade at the rapidly contracting dark golden light deep within the crevice.
The thin golden line on the left palm split open the moment the hands gripped the axe, and the golden blood that gushed out from the crack flowed down the axe handle onto the axe blade, where it condensed into a very thin layer of golden blood film.
The will of all living beings and the protective law of Pangu within the blood membrane were activated simultaneously. The two laws intertwined and shot out an extremely bright golden beam of light from the tip of the axe blade.
The beam of light pierced through the law membrane inside the rift and struck the law spiral at the very center of the mutant's core.
The beam of light struck directly in front of the trajectory of the contracting dark gold light.
That was the turning point after the power of creation had contracted to its limit and was about to rebound.
The window that's been cleaved open is now.
He slammed the axe blade down, and the beam of light struck the very center of the dark gold light.
At the moment of impact, the dark golden light contracted to its limit. The will of all beings and the power of creation resonated briefly in the center of the spiral. After the resonance, the dark golden light was separated from the spiral and flew along the pillar of light towards the blade of Pangu's axe.
At the same time, Sun Wukong flicked the golden cudgel upwards, and the gray-white law imprint completely detached from the other end of the spiral. After detaching, it flew along the dark red law beam into the interior of the flint crystal on his chest's Tanzhong acupoint.
The two laws were stripped away simultaneously, and the spiral dispersed on its own after the stripping was complete.
After dispersing, the void of laws within the mutant body changed from extremely dark to extremely still, so still that one could hear the extremely subtle friction sounds emanating from the law patterns flowing freely deep within the white rock layer of the Ruins foundation.
After losing its internal resistance, the outer shell of the Mutant Law begins to slowly collapse, at an extremely slow but uniform rate.
The gray-white law sediment layer disintegrated layer by layer from the outside in. The law fragments produced by the disintegration were automatically absorbed by the larva's sensory network. After absorption, the dark red light spot in the center of the larva's chest cavity twitched very slightly.
After it finished jumping, it translated the fragments of law into extremely pure law energy. The energy spread in all directions along the law patterns of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation. When it spread to the edge of the Guixu foundation, it was automatically recorded by the perception array of the Eros monitoring station.
The grayish-white shadow inside the mutant stopped collapsing when it reached the last layer of the law membrane.
After stopping, a very thin layer of law crystals condensed on the surface of the membrane wall. The law frequency inside the crystals was completely the same as that of the law membrane wall at the entrance of the Ruins.
It was sealed off.
Sun Wukong emerged from the crack, took the crystallized embers from his chest acupoint, and held it in his furry palm.
The gray-white law imprint was embedded inside the crystal, and the law patterns on the surface of the imprint flickered extremely slightly when they came into contact with the golden law glow of the Guixu foundation.
After the flash, the frequency of the laws within the brand changed from extremely slow to extremely stable, and the stable rhythm was completely synchronized with the heartbeat frequency of his mother when she counted the law patterns on the scales in the Land of Ruins.
He slammed the golden cudgel on the ground and grinned.
"My mother's imprint of the laws has been stripped away. The power of creation has returned to Pangu's axe. The mutant's outer shell collapsed into a layer of law sedimentation, merging into the depths of the white rock layer. This battle is over."
"But just now, when the mark was being peeled off, the spiral of laws inside the mutant released a pulse of laws very briefly before it dispersed."
"The pulse frequency is extremely low and narrow; it's not offensive, it's a communication pulse. Before it disperses, it transmits a signal deeper into the foundation of the Ruins."
Xu's expression changed.
He placed his right hand on the pale gold line on his chest, and the entire sensory power of his heart's pulse probed deeper into the foundation of the Ruins of Return along the direction of that law pulse.
When the sensory limit of the heart's vascular network was reached, a very faint sound of friction of laws came from the bottom of the deepest white rock layer.
It wasn't turning over, it wasn't opening its eyes.
Another grayish-white shadow stirred slightly in its slumber.
The ripples of law generated by the wriggling spread upwards along the law patterns of the white rock layer, and when they reached directly below the larval nest, they resonated with the law fragments left behind by the collapse of the mutant's shell.
After resonance, the frequency of the ripples was automatically captured by the larval sensory network, and the captured data showed a very pessimistic fact.
There is more than one group of mutants.
At the very bottom of the Guixu foundation lies a layer of gray-white sedimentary material.
Embedded within the sediment layer are at least a dozen gray-white shadows that are completely identical to the spiral of law that was just stripped away.
They are asleep, but their slumber is shallower than that of the first group.
The ripples of law generated by the awakening of the first group of mutants have already shaken several of them awake from their deep slumber.
The awakening process is not fast, but it is accelerating.
The communication pulse released before the spiral of law dispersed when the Great Sage removed the law imprint triggered the law instincts within them.
They are communicating with each other, and the communication frequency has a very slight overlap with the pre-pulse of the law released to the outside world during the self-repair of the old domain law.
The overlapping wavebands resonate continuously deep within the Guixu foundation, and the resulting ripples of law are peeling away layer by layer the ancient sealing law patterns within the sedimentary layers.
The seal is loosening.
The entire layer of gray-white law sediment deep within the Guixu foundation is itself an enormous sealing membrane.
The surface of the membrane was covered with extremely ancient law patterns, and the direction of the patterns was exactly the same as the law membrane at the entrance to the Ruins.
This is the Nest Shell Law Seal that Pangu personally carved when he sealed the mutants into the base layer of the Ruins.
The seal's legal structure is extremely stable, so stable that it has never loosened in countless eons.
However, the process of the first group of mutants awakening, peeling off, and collapsing left an extremely fine crack in the seal membrane.
The crack was located directly below the layer of law sediment that remained after the grayish-white shadow collapsed, and the depth of the crack was just enough to penetrate the outermost layer of law patterns on the sealing membrane.
After penetrating, the communication frequencies of the laws of the dozen or so gray-white shadows that were awakening inside the sediment layer leaked outward along the crack.
The leaked law signal was captured by the sensing array of the Eros monitoring station, and a continuous, extremely low law hum emanated from inside the monitoring station.
The humming frequency was extremely stable, so stable that the dark purple law membrane surrounding Eros changed from dark purple to a very light purple-gold on its own during the humming.
This is because the monitoring station automatically adjusted the law warning level to the highest level.
"What will be the first instinct of those dozen or so mutants after they awaken?"
Nezha slammed his fire-tipped spear to the ground.
"The first instinct of the first group of mutants after awakening is to find the source of the external force that disrupts the balance and devour it. The laws sealed inside these mutants are different."
"The first group contains the imprint of the laws of the Great Sage's mother and the power of Pangu's creation of the world. They are different. They contain fragments of primordial laws that remained at the boundary between the Void and Chaos before the formation of the Guixu foundation."
"These fragments bear no imprint of will, only an extremely pure instinct to devour the laws. If they were to awaken collectively, their first instinct would not be to seek out external sources, but to indiscriminately devour all law nodes within the Ruins Foundation whose law density exceeds the critical value."
"The first node to be devoured is the larval nest."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest.
Su Fan hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder and looked down at the slowly spreading crack of law deep within the foundation of the Ruins of Return.
The crack is deepening, not quickly but continuously.
He pressed the thin golden line on the palm of his left hand onto the surface of the white rock layer. The will of all living beings flowed down along the law patterns of the white rock layer, but was blocked by the gray-white law residue gushing out from inside the crack when it reached the edge of the crack.
The density of the laws in the residue is extremely high, and the will of all living beings cannot penetrate it.
"Pangu's axe cannot cleave this seal crack. The laws and structures inside the crack are of the same origin as the seal membrane. The power of creation on Pangu's axe was condensed by Pangu with his own will, and the seal was also condensed by Pangu using the laws of the nest shell."
"Laws of the same origin repel each other; a direct attack will only widen the crack. To repair this crack, we cannot use the Pangu Axe; we can only use a fusion of the aftershocks of the Great Calamity and the laws of the Nest Shell."
"Great Sage, the core of the law within your body is formed from the condensed slurry of the Nest Shell Law, and the aftershocks of the Great Tribulation are the product of the collision between the extraterrestrial laws and the Primordial Heavenly Dao."
"The frequency of the law formed after the two laws merge at the Tanzhong acupoint has a very slight overlap with the frequency of the law of the sealing membrane. The overlap band is extremely narrow, but it is sufficient."
"The fusion can burn away the grayish-white law residue at the edge of the crack layer by layer, and then use the law temperature of the flint embers to heal the crack again."
"Once the seal is restored and the membrane is intact, the communication frequencies of the dozen or so mutant laws inside the sediment layer will be cut off again."
"The awakening process automatically pauses after isolation, and then they will fall back into a dormant state. The whole process doesn't require injections, just burning."
Yang Jian pieced the broken mirrors together, and the real-time law structure of the gray-white law residue inside the seal cracks appeared on the mirror surface.
The density distribution of the structure is extremely uneven, with some areas having thin residue that can be burned through in one round of combustion.
In some areas, the residue is extremely thick, requiring several rounds of repeated burning.
During the burning process, the sealing law patterns on the edge of the crack will be briefly interfered with by the law frequency of the aftershocks of the calamity. During the interference, the overall strength of the sealing membrane will decrease slightly.
The decrease is not significant, but if those dozen or so mutants collectively release law communication pulses during the interference period, the law resonance generated by the pulse superposition will tear a new crack in the sealing membrane from the inside.
"During the burning process, someone needs to stand directly above the crack and use the law resonance of the heart network to monitor the changes in the law communication frequency of the dozen or so mutants inside the sediment layer in real time."
"Once there are signs of a collective release of pulses, give an early warning. After the warning, the Great Sage will increase the output frequency of the aftershocks of the Great Calamity by a little bit, and use a higher frequency to cut off the resonant waveband of the pulse."
"After the pulses are cut off, they can no longer be superimposed. The cardiac network lost a tiny portion of its law tolerance when the first cluster of mutants was peeled off, but the remaining tolerance is enough to monitor the communication frequencies of these dozen or so mutants. It should last until it burns out without any problems."
Xu pressed his right hand back onto his chest.
Sun Wukong slammed his golden cudgel on the ground, then took the crystallized embers of flint from his chest and held it in his palm.
The gray-white law imprint is still embedded inside the crystal, but the law patterns on the surface of the imprint have completely stabilized after coming into contact with the golden law glow of the Ruins Foundation.
He shoved the crystal into Nezha's hand.
"I'll leave my mother's Law Imprint with you for now. Once the seal cracks heal, I'll take it back to the Land of Ruins and return it to her. You said that the first instinct these dozen or so mutants have after awakening is to devour indiscriminately."
"The fragments of primordial laws sealed inside them are different from the first mutated group; they have no imprint of will, only a devouring instinct. So, would you consider them alive?"
"They're not considered alive. They have no will, no self-awareness, only the instinct to follow the laws. The instinct is to devour, and the objects of their devouring are law nodes whose law density exceeds a critical value."
"After they awaken, they will spread in all directions along the law patterns of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation. When they encounter a law node, they will devour it. After they finish devouring it, the law structure inside the node will be transformed into gray-white law residue. The residue will be deposited deep in the Guixu foundation, further eroding the sealing membrane."
"If it is not stopped, the entire law system of the Guixu Foundation will be devoured layer by layer from the bottom. After it is devoured, the Guixu Foundation will collapse. When the Guixu Foundation collapses, the remains of Buzhou Mountain, the water essence, and the seal of Rahu's head that were pressing on it will all collapse as well."
"After the collapse, the Guixu Crack will explode, and the shockwave will overturn the Nantianmen."
The sound of the ruins was extremely calm and steady.
Sun Wukong pulled the golden cudgel out of the white rock layer, carried it on his shoulder, and walked directly above the seal crack.
The grayish-white remnants of laws gushing from the depths of the cracks were extremely conspicuous under the reflection of the aftershocks of the calamity. The law patterns flowing on the surface of the remnants were extremely ancient and primitive, so ancient that even the heart network of the Ruins could barely capture its law boundaries.
He slammed the golden cudgel against the edge of the crack, and the aftershocks of the great calamity on the cudgel exploded into a circle of extremely bright white electric arcs.
The electric arc spreads downwards along the sealing law patterns at the edge of the crack, and when it reaches the surface of the residue, it burns the outermost thin layer of residue into an extremely fine gray-white law powder.
The powder floated briefly in the golden glow of the laws at the foundation of the Ruins before being automatically absorbed by the larval sensory network.
After absorption, the dark red dot in the very center of the larva's thorax twitched extremely slightly.
"A layer was burned off. The sealing law patterns at the edge of the crack recovered on their own after a brief disturbance, and the recovery speed was faster than expected. The thickness and distribution of the residue were just re-scanned by the heart's vascular network."
"The thickest area needs to be burned repeatedly. During the burning process, there is currently no sign of a collective release pulse from the dozen or so mutant laws communication frequencies inside the sediment layer."
"They are communicating individually at extremely low and dispersed frequencies, so they will not resonate together for the time being. However, the communication frequency of one mutant is accelerating, and the direction of acceleration is not towards the other mutants, but towards the crack on the surface of the sealing membrane."
"It's using communication pulses to probe the depth of the crack. It's about to find it. Once it finds it, it will summon other mutants to release communication pulses in the direction of the crack. At that time, the pulse superposition and resonance will tear the crack open. We need to burn this remnant thoroughly before it finds the crack."
Sun Wukong increased the output frequency of the aftershocks of the great calamity slightly, and the silver-white electric arcs that exploded on the staff were even brighter than before.
The electric arc struck the surface of the thickest area of the residue, burning the residue layer by layer into powder. When the second to last layer was burned, the communication frequency of the mutant inside the sediment layer suddenly accelerated.
It discovered a crack.
It is summoning other mutants.
The communication frequencies of more than a dozen gray and white shadows all turned toward the crack at the same instant. After the turn, the rhythm of the communication pulses changed from extremely dispersed to extremely synchronized, and the synchronized rhythm was extremely stable and fast.
They began to release law communication pulses simultaneously towards the crack, and the law resonance generated by the pulse superposition exploded into a circle of extremely bright gray-white law ripples inside the sealing membrane.
The ripples spread deeper into the sealing membrane along the crack, and by the time they reached the root of the crack, the crack had been torn several times wider.
The remnants of the gray-white law poured out from the crack, several times faster than before.
"The crack has been torn open! The debris is pouring out at twice the speed, and the aftershocks of the cataclysmic event can't keep up!"
Nezha slammed his Fire-Tipped Spear against the edge of the crack, and a ring of extremely bright flames exploded from the tip of the spear, engulfing the grayish-white remnants of the law that were gushing out from the crack and burning them into extremely fine powder.
However, the residue surged out too quickly, and the flames of the Fire Law did not cover a large enough area. One layer was burned off, and two more layers surged out; two layers were burned off, and four more layers surged out.
The crack is widening.
Su Fan cleaved the Pangu Axe directly above the crack, and the chaotic original light on the axe blade transformed into an extremely bright golden pillar of the will of all living beings the moment it struck.
The beam of light struck the very center of the crack, cutting off the outward flow of grayish-white law remnants in the middle.
After the severance, the rate at which the residue flowed out temporarily slowed down, but the sealing law patterns at the edge of the crack began to collapse under the dual impact of the will of all living beings and the aftershocks of the great calamity.
The outermost layer of the sealing membrane's law patterns broke one by one. After the breakage, the law communication frequencies of the dozen or so mutants inside the sediment layer simultaneously leaked out from the cracks, and the leaked law signals were extremely strong and bright.
The moment the Eros monitoring station's sensing array received these signals, it skipped the highest level of the law warning and automatically triggered the monitoring station's internal law emergency response program.
The dark purple law membrane surrounding Eros changed from a very pale purple-gold to an extremely bright silver-white the moment the emergency response program was triggered.
This is the passive law-responsive state of the law symbiotic entity under extreme operating conditions.
He raised his right hand from his side, palm up, and the crystal of the draft agreement, which had been personally marked by the origin of the old domain's laws, reappeared in his palm.
All three laws within the crystal lit up, their light penetrating the law membrane of the Ruins of Return crack, striking the extremely dark void outside the membrane, and simultaneously emitting an extremely bright law pulse towards the origin of the third branch and the old domain.
The pulse contains only one sentence.
"Guixu has been attacked, please send reinforcements."