bioinnovel Chapter 410 There's Something Under the Barrier
Chapter 410 There's Something Under the Barrier
After the heterodyne membrane was fully spread on the surface of the isolation zone, Eros withdrew his hands from above the fault.
The ten beams of transparent law light extinguished one by one at the fingertips, starting with the left little finger and ending with the right thumb.
Each time a crack was extinguished, an extremely fine crack appeared on the transparent membrane surrounding his body.
What gushed out from the depths of the crack was not the slurry of the laws, but extremely faint grayish-white remnants of the laws, the same color as the original slurry inside the isolation zone.
The law of different frequencies erected an extremely thin insulating layer between the sealing membrane wall of the isolation zone and the original slurry. The law frequency of this insulating layer does not belong to any known law system, is completely independent, and does not resonate with any law.
However, the insulating layer itself was subjected to extremely high pressure force generated by the awakening of the slurry inside the isolation zone during the spreading process.
The impact force was transmitted back to the deepest part of the core of the monitoring station's sensing array along the gray light law beam, leaving an extremely fine law burn mark on the surface of the array core.
"The heterogeneous membrane wall has stabilized. After the original slurry inside the isolation zone has spread out on the membrane wall, it has fallen into a state of dormancy again, and the dormancy depth is even deeper than before."
"The monitoring station's sensing array lost a backup law component during the reverse impact. Most of the old domain law imprint inside the component was worn away during the impact, and the remaining part is still repairing itself. The repair speed is not fast but stable."
Eros looked down at the ten law cracks on his fingertips that were slowly healing. The new transparent membranes at the edges of the cracks were thinner than before, so thin that the extremely fine causal law patterns inside the membranes could be seen flowing on their own.
Xu removed his right hand from the pale gold line on his chest and walked up to Eros.
The transparent law pattern on my fingertip had briefly cracked once when the authorization of the old domain ended, but the crack has now completely healed.
After the wound healed, the lines became slightly fainter than before. This faint line was extremely subtle, but Xu knew that it meant that the heart's network had lost a very small portion of the law tolerance during the extreme operation of the closed system.
He took the stone core out of his bosom and held it in the palm of his left hand. The silvery-white crystal on the surface of the core beat at an extremely stable frequency, perfectly synchronized with the heartbeat of the larva deep within the foundation of the Ruins.
After the larval sensory network went silent in the isolation zone, it re-scanned the state of all the law-abnormal nodes of the Guixu foundation and confirmed that the law structures of the three key nodes—the sealing membrane wall, the fault healing opening, and the heterogeneous frequency isolation layer—were all stable.
"After the Ruins of Return were sealed, the entire outer defense line was placed on the South Heavenly Gate. Yang Jian used the Shattered Mirror to transmit the last pulse of law before the Ruins of Return were sealed. The pulse contained the voice of Nezha."
Xu put the stone core back into his bosom.
"What did he say?"
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe out of the fault wall and carried it on his shoulder.
"He said, 'You guys are making such a commotion in there, and I'm guarding the boundary marker outside, and I haven't even had a bite of fried dough sticks. Old Zhang just fried a new batch, and he said he'd fry another batch when you come out.'"
"The firewood that A Dou chopped filled half a wall; it was flammable and burned for a long time. Guarding the boundary marker didn't stop him from sharpening his knives, and the human warriors tempered seven more kitchen knives, their registration numbers going up to the thirtieth-something in the Bone Mountain mortal realm."
Xu repeated Nezha's message word for word.
Sun Wukong squatted on the edge of the fault, his golden cudgel resting on his knees.
After the Ruins of Guixu were sealed, the dark red flame formed from the embers of flint on his chest's Tanzhong acupoint became a shade darker than before.
However, the gray-white law imprinted inside the crystal is extremely stable, perfectly synchronized with his mother's heartbeat frequency when she was counting scales in the Land of Ruins.
He slammed his golden cudgel on the ground and stood up.
"The closure of the Ruins is not permanent. The larval perception network just transmitted a piece of law data to the Eros monitoring station. The data shows that the law pressure deep within the white rock layer of the Ruins' foundation is slowly decreasing."
"There are two reasons for the decline: First, the mutants stopped releasing communication pulses after being sealed in eternal slumber. Second, the original slurry in the isolation zone stopped absorbing external energy after being isolated by the heterogeneous membrane."
"With both pressure sources disappearing simultaneously, the overall pressure of the Guixu foundation is continuously decreasing. Once it reaches a normal level, the Guixu crack will automatically reopen, allowing people to exit from the inside and enter from the outside. Based on the current rate of decrease, the reopening should not take long."
Xu transmitted the pressure changes of the Guixu Foundation Law sensed by the heart's pulse network to everyone in a synchronized manner.
Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe over his shoulder and headed towards the fault exit.
After taking a few steps, he suddenly stopped and looked down at an extremely subtle law pattern deep within the white rock layer beneath his feet.
The pattern's direction is completely identical to the nest shell pattern on the sealing membrane wall, but its color is lighter, so light that it is almost completely covered by the golden fluorescence of the white rock layer itself.
This pattern did not exist before the Ruins were sealed; it only emerged from the depths of the white rock layer after the heterogeneous frequency membrane wall was fully extended.
The lines extend from the bottom of the fault all the way to the deepest part of the Guixu foundation. The direction of the extension is not the sealing membrane wall, not the isolation zone, and not the larval nest.
It points to an extremely inconspicuous law node at the deepest part of the Guixu foundation. The node is located extremely deep directly below the isolation zone, at a depth far exceeding the limit of any previous scan of the heart network.
When the heart network of the Ruins detected this pattern, it paused briefly for a beat, but this beat was not due to interference from the impact of the laws.
It is the heart's pulsation network that actively adjusts its beating frequency to adapt to the extremely low law density of that law node.
"The location of that law node is directly below the isolation zone, at a depth far exceeding the limits of any previous scan of the heart's vascular network. The density of laws within the node is extremely low, almost equivalent to nothingness."
"When Pangu cleaved the isolation zone, he left a backup law node directly below it. The node contains an extremely pure Nest Shell Law Liquid, and the law frequency of the liquid is completely the same as that of the law membrane at the entrance to the Ruins."
"The function of this backup law node is not to seal, but to restart. If the seal of the isolation zone is broken by external force, the original liquid will automatically activate, flowing upwards along this law pattern and into the interior of the isolation zone, pressing the original slurry back into a dormant state. This is the last contingency plan left by Pangu."
"I didn't get to use my backup plan." Su Fan looked down at the very faint nest shell law pattern on his feet.
"It wasn't needed. The membrane wall sealed the isolation zone, so there was no need to re-press the slurry from the original solution."
"But the Nest Shell Law Essence sealed inside this backup Law Node is extremely pure. If it is not released, the essence will continue to compress itself inside the node, and after being compressed to the limit, it will produce extremely weak Law Crystals."
"The crystals will slowly seep upwards along the patterns of the laws, penetrating into the network of laws in the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation. After penetration, the patterns of the Dao of All Beings inside the white rock layer will be strengthened by the original liquid of the Nest Shell Law, and after strengthening, the overall law density of the Guixu foundation will jump a little higher."
"This small section will not disrupt any balance of laws, but it will increase the pressure-bearing capacity of the Guixu foundation by at least 10%. This is provided that the original liquid is not contaminated by residual law fluctuations within the isolation zone before release."
"Although the heterogeneous frequency membrane wall isolates the slurry from the outside world, the membrane wall itself absorbs a very small amount of residual slurry law waves during the spreading process. The residual waves slowly diffuse inside the membrane wall, and when they diffuse to the top of the backup law node, they will produce a very subtle law resonance with the original liquid."
"Resonance itself will not contaminate the original liquid, but it will accelerate the release rate of the original liquid. After the acceleration, the original liquid will all rush into the white rock layer in a very short time. The speed of the rush is too fast, and the larval sensory network cannot absorb and transform it in time. The excess original liquid will flow back into the sealing membrane wall along the law patterns of the white rock layer."
"After the backflow, the mutants sealed inside the membrane will be reactivated by the original liquid of the Nest Shell Law. After activation, they will not awaken. They will remain in eternal slumber, suppressed by the seal, unable to wake up."
"But their law communication pulses will be retried by the law frequency of the original liquid. After being triggered, the pulses will be transmitted outward along the law patterns inside the sealing membrane wall. When they are transmitted to the fracture healing opening, they are blocked by the fragments of the will of all living beings remaining at the healing opening."
"Once blocked, the pulse won't leak out, but it will continue to resonate inside the sealing membrane. If the resonance continues for too long, it will loosen the structural laws governing the sealing membrane."
Will the mutants wake up after the earthquake?
Nezha's voice came from the direction of the fault exit.
He leaned against the inner wall of the fault, carrying the Fire-Tipped Spear. The law mark on his left shoulder was extremely stable in brightness under the blessing of the Pure Yang Talisman.
After the Ruins were sealed, he remained at the South Heavenly Gate to guard the boundary marker, but there was a very faint resonance channel between the Law Mark on his left shoulder and the heart network of the Ruins.
The Ruins transmitted all the data on the laws within the Ruins Foundation to him in real time through this channel, and he listened to every conversation in the fault line simultaneously on the South Heavenly Gate City Wall.
"It won't wake up. The suppressive strength of the eternal slumber seal far exceeds the impact of the laws generated by the resonance. The loosening is only a slight loosening of the outermost law patterns of the seal membrane, and it does not affect the core seal structure."
"But once the sealing membrane loosens, the monitoring accuracy of the larva's sensory network deep within the Guixu foundation will decrease slightly. This slight decrease is so minute that it will not affect the overall balance of the laws governing the Guixu foundation."
"However, if an external force impacts the membrane wall during resonance, the larval sensory network may not be able to detect the very early warning signals of the impact. This is because the noise generated by resonance will mask the warning signals."
"The probability of an external impact is extremely low. The old domain is stable during the period of equilibrium. The three branches at the origin of the extraterrestrial gods are all arguing amongst themselves. The flint beacon rune at the entrance to the Land of Ruins is extremely stable, and there is no threat to the outside of the membrane wall for the time being. Although the probability is low, it cannot be completely ruled out."
Xu transmitted the resonance frequency of the laws sensed by the heart's pulsation network to everyone in sync.
Su Fan slammed the Pangu Axe onto the ground:
"How to safely release the original solution?"
"Use the law of different frequencies to lay an extremely thin law buffer layer between the backup law node and the isolation zone."
"The frequency of the buffer layer is completely different from that of the original liquid. When the original liquid emerges from the node, it first passes through the buffer layer, which reduces the release rate of the original liquid to a level that the larval sensory network can tolerate."
"After the speed is reduced, the original liquid is completely absorbed and transformed by the perception network. The excess original liquid will not flow back into the sealing membrane wall, and resonance will not occur. However, laying the buffer layer requires using the law of different frequencies to inject a law beam at an extremely precise position directly above the backup law node. The diameter of the beam cannot exceed the node opening."
"The node opening is extremely small, so small that even the heart's vascular network can barely pinpoint its precise coordinates. If the beam deviates even slightly in precision, it will strike the nest-shell pattern at the edge of the node opening and shatter the pattern."
"After the rupture, the original liquid will leak out from the unhealed cracks. The leaked original liquid is not controlled by the buffer layer and flows directly into the white rock layer. The backflow cannot be stopped."
Eros looked down at the ten law-related cracks on his fingertips that were slowly healing, the newly formed transparent membranes at the edges of the cracks were a layer thinner than before.
"One of the backup components at the monitoring station was damaged in the last impact. Will the remaining one be able to withstand this precise penetration?"
Ruins looked at Eros.
"It can hold. But after it's inserted, the old domain law imprint inside the backup law component will be completely worn away. Once worn away, this fusion law will lose the resonance and support of the old domain law."
"After losing its blessing, the frequency of the Law of Different Frequency will very slowly shift towards the direction of the Primordial World of All Beings. After shifting to a certain extent, the Law of Different Frequency will no longer be of different frequency."
"It will become an extremely subtle branch of the laws of the Path of All Beings. Once it becomes a branch, it can no longer be used to isolate any law entities that resonate with the Path of All Beings."
"In other words, after this law of different frequencies was injected into the buffer layer, it completely completed its mission in the foundation of the Ruins. In the future, if a crisis requiring isolation of different frequencies is encountered, it will have to start from scratch to integrate again."
Eros raised his hands back from his sides, spread his fingers, and once again shot out ten extremely thin, transparent beams of law from his fingertips.
The beam of light was paler than before, so pale that it was almost completely swallowed up by the extremely dark and still void of laws within the fault.
Su Fan looked at the ten beams of law that were re-condensing at Eros's fingertips, remained silent for a moment, then hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder, clearing the center of the fault.
Eros walked directly above the backup law node. The node's opening was so small that it was almost invisible in the extremely dark and quiet law void inside the fault.
However, the last wisp of law residual after the old domain authorization ended, as observed by the monitoring station's sensing array, illuminated the extremely fine nest shell law patterns at the edge of the node opening.
The direction of the patterns is completely the same as the law membrane at the entrance to the Ruins.
He simultaneously aimed ten beams of light from both hands at the very center of the node opening. The beams converged into a tiny gray light spot of law above the opening for an extremely short time. The law frequency inside the light spot was extremely stable, so stable that even Xu's heart network could not sense any law fluctuations.
He gently pressed the light spot down, and the light spot precisely hit the center of the node opening.
The moment it was injected, the original liquid of the Nest Shell Law sealed inside the node rippled slightly, and then began to flow upwards along the inner wall of the node.
When it surges to the edge of the opening, it is blocked by an extremely thin buffer layer formed by the gray light law points. The buffer layer slows down the release rate of the original liquid to an extremely slow level, so slow that the larval sensory network can calmly absorb and transform every drop of the surging original liquid.
The entire process was extremely quiet and stable, with not a single drop of the original liquid flowing back into the sealing membrane.
After the original liquid of the Nest Shell Law inside the backup law node is completely released under the control of the buffer layer, the node opening closes itself, leaving a very faint Nest Shell Law pattern at the close.
The direction of the pattern perfectly aligned with the law pattern that had just extended from the node deep within the white rock layer. After the alignment, the Dao of All Beings pattern inside the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation was strengthened by the Nest Shell Law Essence by an extremely subtle amount.
This trace was extremely subtle, but the overall density of the laws governing the Guixu foundation jumped up slightly after the reinforcement was completed.
After the larvae's sensory network absorbed the last bit of original liquid, the dark red dot in the center of its chest cavity twitched extremely slightly. After the twitching, it recalibrated the pressure-bearing limit of the Ruins foundation. The calibration results were simultaneously transmitted to the sensory array of the Eros monitoring station and the heart network of the Ruins.
"The maximum bearing capacity of the Guixu foundation has jumped by at least 10%. The strengthening effect of the Nest Shell Law essence is better than expected. The essence was compressed inside the node for a much longer time than predicted. The longer it was compressed, the higher its purity and the greater the strengthening effect."
Xu removed his hand from his chest.
Sun Wukong squatted on the edge of the fault, took the crystallized embers of flint from his pocket and held it in his furry palm.
The gray-white law imprinted inside the crystal is extremely stable, perfectly synchronized with his mother's heartbeat frequency when she was counting scales in the Land of Ruins.
He watched as the ten beams of law at Eros's fingertips gradually extinguished, each beam leaving a tiny crack in the law on his fingertip after it disappeared.
The grayish-white remnants of the law gushing from the depths of the crack grew fainter and fainter until they were almost invisible when the last beam of light went out.
"How long will it take for the cracks on your ten fingers to heal?"
"It won't be long. The law-sensing array inside the monitoring station will automatically absorb the residual heat of the light gold moss that has grown on the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation. The residual heat can accelerate the healing of the cracks."
"After the wound heals, extremely fine, transparent law patterns will remain on the fingertips, and the complete law memory of this different frequency law is sealed inside the patterns."
"If we need to reintegrate the laws of different frequencies in the future, we can extract the memory template from this pattern. The integration speed will be much faster than starting from scratch. The cost is that these ten patterns will never disappear."
"They are the first physical imprint left by the Law of Different Frequency in the Primordial Law System."
Eros looked down at the ten cracks on the tips of his fingers that were slowly healing, the newly formed transparent membranes at the edges of the cracks being extremely thin and faint.
During the period when Guixu was sealed, the inside of the fault was extremely quiet and dark, so quiet that one could hear the extremely subtle frictional sounds emitted by the law patterns flowing freely deep within the white rock layer of Guixu's foundation.
Su Fan slammed the Pangu Axe against the inner wall of the fault, sat down next to the axe handle, and placed his left palm on his knee.
The thin golden line in his palm was extremely faint in the pale golden light of the Guixu foundation, and could not be seen unless you looked closely.
He took the wooden axe that A Dou had given him out of his pocket and placed it on his lap. The green light painted on the axe blade with a highlighter had completely faded, but the two crooked engravings on the handle were still there.
Sun Wukong stuffed the last bite of peach into his mouth, chewed it twice and swallowed it. He then took out a few glowing monkey hairs from the sleeve of his old battle robe and placed them in his palm. The aftershocks of the monkey hairs were extremely faint in the dark and quiet void of the laws within the fault line.
Su Fan took the broken mirror out of his waist. Real-time law images of four key nodes—the sealing membrane wall, the fault healing opening, the frequency isolation layer, and the backup law node—emerged on the mirror surface. All four images were stable.
Yang Jian pieced the two broken mirrors together on the South Heavenly Gate city wall. The mirrors simultaneously monitored the pressure drop curve of the laws inside the Guixu foundation and the fluctuation data of the void law environment outside the membrane wall. Both curves were stable.
Xu withdrew all his perception from the depths of the Ruins Foundation, removed his right hand from his chest, and looked down at the transparent law pattern on his fingertip.
After the Law of Different Frequency completed its mission, the pattern flickered very slightly, and after the flicker, the Law fluorescence on the surface of the pattern was slightly brighter than before.
This trace was extremely subtle, but Xu knew it meant that the tolerance of the heart's vascular network began to slowly recover on its own after being depleted during the period of Xu's closure.
He took the stone core out of his bosom and held it in the palm of his left hand. The silvery-white crystal on the surface of the core beat at an extremely stable frequency, perfectly synchronized with the heartbeat of the larva deep within the foundation of the Ruins.
The pressure of the laws deep within the Guixu foundation returned to normal levels after the larval sensory network completed its final calibration.
After the pressure decreased, the speed at which the Nest Shell Law patterns on the inner wall of the fault flowed slightly faster than before. The patterns of the Dao of All Beings deep within the white rock layer also adjusted their distribution structure of law density after being strengthened by the Nest Shell Law Original Liquid.
The Guixu Crack reopened itself the instant the pressure of the laws dropped to a normal level. The resulting ripples of laws were extremely subtle and stable, and they traveled upwards along the law membrane of the Guixu Crack. When they reached the South Heavenly Gate City Wall, they were automatically captured by the core fragments of Mount Sumeru.
The law node generated by the fusion of Buddhist laws and the laws of the path of sentient beings within the core fragment flickered extremely slightly after receiving this ripple.
The golden light of Mars shone on the newly grown pale golden patterns on the city bricks. The golden light was extremely stable. The law patterns on the surface of the dark golden barrier on the outer side of the membrane slowly flowed in the void without any further fluctuations.
The closure of Guixu has ended.
Yang Jian stood on the city wall, separated the two shards of the mirror, tucked one half into his waistband, and shone the other half towards the Guixu crack.
The law signals of Su Fan, Sun Wukong, Xu, and Eros appeared on the mirror. The signals were all stable and were rising from the depths of the Guixu foundation.
Su Fan was the first to emerge from the Ruins of Return, carrying the Pangu Axe on his shoulder. The faint chaotic light on the axe blade was barely visible against the golden light of Mars.
Sun Wukong followed behind, carrying his golden cudgel. The dark red flame, formed from the embers of flint on his chest, was a shade darker than before he entered the Ruins of Return.
Xu and Eros walked at the back. The ten law cracks on Eros's fingertips had completely healed, and the transparent law patterns left at the healed points were extremely faint and fine.
Nezha leaned against the edge of the battlement, carrying his fire-tipped spear, with a fried dough stick dangling from his mouth.
The fried dough sticks were freshly fried by Old Zhang, and they were still crispy when you bit into them.
He chewed twice and swallowed, then slammed the fire-tipped spear on the ground and watched the four people emerge from the crack.
"During the closure of the Ruins, everything at the South Heavenly Gate boundary marker was normal. There were no fluctuations in the laws on the outside of the membrane wall, the direction of the Old Domain was extremely stable, the flint beacon runes at the entrance to the Ruins of Extinction were extremely stable, and the three branches at the Origin of the Extraterrestrial Gods were still arguing."
"The human warriors forged seven more kitchen knives, and their registration numbers were in the thirties in the Bone Mountain mortal realm. Adou chopped firewood and piled up half a wall. Old Zhang said the firewood was enough to burn for several months."
"The weapons shop next to the fried dough stick stall got a new job today. Old Li, who repairs bicycles at the street corner, pushed a broken tricycle in for repair, saying that the tricycle chain was broken and asking if the human warrior could use the law crystal on the tip of the Demon Emperor's Spear to temper a new chain."
"The human warrior threw the broken chain into the quenching tank and soaked it for half an hour. He took it out and quenched it again. After quenching, the chain was even sharper than the original. Old Li rode the repaired tricycle around the alley entrance more than a dozen times and said it was even easier to ride than a brand new one."
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe off his shoulder and stuck it at his feet before walking to the edge of the battlement.
The aftershocks of the great calamity at the alley entrance still danced with faint white arcs of electricity on the bluestone slabs, while A Dou squatted beside the fried dough stick stall, chopping the dry branches for today.
After chopping the firewood, Old Zhang carried it to the stove. He patted the man's head, took a freshly fried dough stick from the chopping board, and stuffed it into the man's hand.
A Dou, with a fried dough stick in his mouth, ran to the entrance of the weapons shop and placed his small axe on the stone platform for Qingfeng to inspect the blade.
Qingfeng picked up the small axe and flipped it over. The dark red law pattern on the axe blade was very clear in the morning light. There were no chips or dulling.
After chopping dry branches for several months, the layer of law-based membrane that had been wrapped around the blade during quenching became brighter and brighter with repeated chopping, and its hardness had exceeded the initial value during quenching, and it was still evolving on its own.
Su Fan withdrew his gaze from the edge of the stack, took his phone out of his pocket, the screen was lit, and the live streaming app was still running.
The comments are still scrolling, but the speed is much slower than it was half a month ago.
Several familiar comments appeared on time, the opening line being the same as always: "Boss, how many fried dough sticks are you eating today?"
He leaned his phone against a brick next to the core fragment of Mount Sumeru and said something to the camera.
"The lockdown of Guixu is over, everything is normal. Today I'll eat three sticks with a bowl of soy milk, no sugar."
Then he took the Pangu Axe from his waist, leaned it against the stool leg, and sat down to wait for Old Zhang's fried dough sticks to be ready.
The golden light of Mars shone on the newly grown pale gold patterns on the city bricks, on the slowly rotating halo of the core fragments of Mount Sumeru and the fragments of Buddhist laws, and on the newly laid pale gold moss on the white rock platform deep in the foundation of Guixu.
The dark purple law membrane at the deepest part of the void outside the membrane wall, where the old domain was in seclusion, was extremely stable; the flint beacon rune at the entrance to the Ruins was extremely stable.
Steam rose from the steamer baskets of the fried dough stick stall in the morning light, while the quenching tanks in the weapons shop still emitted faint steam.
The aftershocks of the calamity at the alley entrance still danced with faint white arcs of electricity on the bluestone slabs. A Dou finished chopping another bundle of dry branches and carried it toward the stove.
The primordial chaos is very stable.