bioinnovel Chapter 415 Paradox of Law
Chapter 415 Paradox of Law
Xu probed the depths of the crevice with all the perception of his heart's network of energy, following the pattern of the law.
The crevice was extremely narrow and dark, with a density of laws so low as to be almost nonexistent. The perception of the heart's network penetrated very slowly, consuming several times more law tolerance than usual for every inch it probed downwards.
When they reached the bottom of the crevice, their perception was blocked by an extremely thin membrane of laws.
This membrane is extremely thin and transparent, almost non-existent, but the frequency of the laws within it is extremely ancient and primitive, so ancient that it is completely of the same origin as the law membrane at the entrance to the Ruins.
"There is a law-based membrane at the bottom of the crevice."
"The laws of the membrane wall are of the same origin as those of the nest shell, but it is thinner and more transparent, so thin that even the larval sensory network misses it."
"The membrane wall contains extremely faint fluctuations of laws, and the frequency of these fluctuations overlaps very slightly with the primordial chaotic light on the blade of Pangu's Axe."
"Pangu left something deep in the foundation of the Ruins of Return: it was not a fragment of an axe blade, not bone or blood, and not a sealing mark."
"It's just one sentence."
Xu translated the fluctuations of the laws within the membrane wall sensed by the heart's vascular network into concrete information in his chest cavity. When he opened his eyes, his pale golden pupils reflected a very faint dark golden light from the deepest part of the foundation of Guixu.
Su Fan took the Pangu Axe off his waist, gripped it with both hands, and aimed the blade downwards at the inconspicuous law pattern directly above the crevice.
The will of all living beings was poured into the axe blade, and the chaotic primordial light on the axe blade shone brightly in the extremely faint golden law glow of the Guixu foundation.
He gently chopped down along the grain of the axe blade, and the grain parted on its own the moment it touched the blade, revealing an extremely narrow gap just wide enough for one person to squeeze through sideways.
The inner wall of the crevice was engraved with extremely ancient nest shell law patterns, the direction of which was completely the same as the law membrane wall at the entrance of the Ruins.
However, each line is lighter and fainter than the entrance membrane, not like it was deliberately carved, but more like the natural condensation of the residual energy of a law unconsciously released by some extremely large and ancient law body during its slumber.
Sun Wukong squatted on the edge of the crevice, his golden cudgel resting on his knees, his monkey eyes reflecting the faint patterns of the nest shell law on the inner wall of the crevice.
He took the crystallized embers from his chest, held it in his palm, and the law patterns on the surface of the gray-white law imprint inside the crystal flickered on their own as they approached the inner wall of the crevice.
After the flash, the frequency of the laws inside the brand resonated with a very faint line on the inner wall of the crevice.
The resonance band is extremely narrow, so narrow that even the heart's pulsation network can barely detect it, but it exists.
"The patterns on the inner wall of the crevice are of the same origin as the patterns on my mother's scales, but they were not carved by Pangu."
"Each of the runes carved by Pangu carries the lingering echo of the axe blade that created the heavens. These patterns do not have the lingering echo of the axe blade, but only the pure fluctuations of the laws of the nest shell."
"They are alive. They are the last breaths of law that my mother released from the core of the nest before she fell into slumber countless eons ago."
"The breath blown into the depths of Guixu condensed into these patterns on the original white rock layer."
"Pangu later discovered this crevice and used the Nest Shell Law to condense an extremely thin membrane at the bottom of the crevice, sealing my mother's last breath inside."
"What's sealed inside the membrane isn't a law node, nor a sealing mark; it's the last thing my mother said before she fell into a deep sleep."
Sun Wukong pressed the crystallized embers of the flint onto his chest at the Tanzhong acupoint, then, carrying his golden cudgel, squeezed sideways into the crevice.
Su Fan followed behind him, the chaotic original light on the blade of the Pangu Axe illuminating every faint nest shell law pattern on the inner wall of the crevice.
The texture changed from extremely faint to extremely bright under the light, so bright that the entire crevice was reflected as an extremely faint dark gold.
Within the dark gold, an extremely faint aftertaste of laws flowed. The frequency of this aftertaste was so low and deep that even the frequency of the chaotic original light on the blade of the Pangu Axe was dragged down by it.
This was an extremely subtle sensation, but Su Fan could feel it in his hand holding the axe handle. The Pangu Axe was becoming heavier, not in terms of physical weight, but in terms of the weight of the laws governing it.
"The membrane wall is absorbing the power of the laws of Pangu's axe."
"It was sealed for countless eons, and the residual energy of the Nest Shell Law within it has been slowly fading away, until only an extremely thin and transparent layer remains."
"Now that it senses the aura of Pangu's Axe, it has begun to actively absorb external law energy to replenish the law structure of the membrane wall itself."
"The absorption rate is not fast, but it is continuous. Once the membrane wall has recovered its full thickness, it will open on its own."
The sound of the ruins came from the direction of the narrow entrance.
Su Fan pushed the Pangu Axe forward, and the chaotic original light on the axe blade actively poured into the extremely thin law membrane at the bottom of the crevice.
The membrane trembled slightly the instant it received the chaotic primordial light. After the tremor, the law patterns on the surface of the membrane began to recover layer by layer. When it recovered from being extremely thin and transparent to being more than half its original thickness, an extremely fine crack appeared in the center of the membrane.
A faint yet profound lingering aura of the laws emanated from within the opening, slowly spreading through the extremely dark and still void of the laws within the crevice.
When it diffused onto the surface of those extremely faint nest shell pattern lines on the inner wall of the crevice, it was automatically absorbed by the pattern lines. After absorption, the pattern lines flashed very subtly.
After the flash, the crevice was extremely quiet and dark, so quiet that one could hear the faint friction of laws as the primordial light of chaos flowed on the blade of the Pangu Axe.
Then a voice came from deep within the tear in the membrane, extremely soft and faint, with a tone like someone who had just woken up and turned over, hoarse as if speaking for the first time after countless eons of slumber.
"Pangu, what's that sound outside the nest?"
"It's so noisy."
"Go and take a look."
The sound of living beings penetrated every faint nest shell law pattern on the inner wall of the crevice, penetrated the extremely thick law sediment layer deep in the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation, penetrated the law membrane wall of the Guixu crack, and penetrated the flint beacon runes at the entrance of the Ruins of Extinction.
The sound traveled deep into the scales of the enormous living creature that perched around the core of the Ruins Nest Shell, and resonated subtly with the old axe mark on the creature's head, a mark so thinly that no trace of its healing remained.
The creature was counting the patterns of laws on its scales, and stopped when it reached the rune that Pangu had carved with the tip of his axe dipped in blood.
She heard the last words she uttered before falling into a deep sleep countless lifetimes ago.
She remained silent for a long time, then raised her head from the deepest part of her body. Her dark golden gaze pierced through the law membrane at the entrance to the Ruins of Desolation, through the extremely dark and deep law void of the Ruins of Desolation, and landed in the extremely narrow and dark crevice at the deepest part of the Ruins of Desolation foundation.
"That stone monkey, those words were spoken by me before I fell into a deep sleep."
"After saying this, Pangu picked up the Heaven-Opening Axe, left the nest, cleaved through the chaos, and never returned."
"I thought that sentence had long since vanished into the void, but I never expected that Pangu would seal it beneath the Guixu Earth."
"He sealed countless times, until the membrane was almost transparent, just so that I could hear with my own ears the last words I spoke before I fell into a deep sleep."
"He wasn't trying to prove anything; he was trying to tell me something."
"What woke you up wasn't chaos, but those collapsing fragments of void outside of chaos."
"The fragments of the void collided and squeezed against each other, the sound of the collision piercing through the membrane of the nest shell, disturbing you for countless eons."
"Pangu split the chaos not to quiet it down, but to shatter all the collapsing fragments of the void."
"After it's shattered, the fragments of the void won't collide with each other anymore, so chaos won't be awakened. If chaos doesn't wake up, the nest won't be awakened, and you can continue to sleep."
"After he cleaved the void fragments, he didn't have the strength to come back. He scattered the fragments of the Heaven-Opening Axe throughout the chaos, broke off his own bones and blood and pressed them into the bottom of the Ruins. With his last breath, he sealed your words at the bottom of the crevice. After sealing it, he said another sentence to the inner wall of the crevice."
Sun Wukong took the crystallized embers from his chest, placed it in his palm, and the gray-white law was imprinted inside the crystal, making it extremely stable.
He placed the crystal on the extremely faint nest shell law pattern on the inner wall of the crevice. The pattern flashed for a moment when it came into contact with the gray-white law imprint inside the crystal, and after it flashed, an extremely subtle law aftertaste emerged from the depths of the pattern.
The words Pangu spoke to the inner wall of the crevice, sealed within the afterglow, were spoken in an extremely soft and faint tone, exactly the same as the words he spoke to his mother's scales at the bottom of the vacuum of the isolation zone.
"What's bothering you isn't chaos, it's fragments of the void."
"I've shattered all the fragments."
"You keep sleeping, I'll stay with you."
The creature remained silent for a long time inside the core of the nest shell in the Ruins of Desolation, so silent that Sun Wukong thought she had no intention of speaking again.
Then she spoke, her voice piercing through the flint beacon runes at the entrance to the Ruins of Nothingness, traveling along the law membrane of the Ruins of Nothingness into the deepest part of the crevice. Her tone was extremely soft and faint, exactly the same as the last words Pangu spoke to her before he stepped out of his nest with the Heaven-Opening Axe.
"I understand."
"You guarded countless Huiyuan, guarded until the axe blade shattered, guarded until your bones and blood dried up, guarded until your last breath was sealed at the bottom of the crevice, guarded until later generations found your axe blade fragments one by one, guarded until that elementary school student placed your bone and blood fragments next to the wood-chopping axe and kept them in the white steam of the fried dough stick stall's steamer."
"I was counting the scales just now, and when I got to the rune you carved, there was a new pattern next to it."
"That new pattern wasn't carved by you. It's the sentence you sealed at the bottom of the crevice that flew up and embedded itself into the scales after the membrane opened."
"That sentence is back in its place."
"You should take a break too."
Sun Wukong pressed the crystallized embers of flint onto his chest at the Tanzhong acupoint, then squeezed out of the crevice while carrying his golden cudgel.
The faint nest shell law patterns on the inner wall of the crevice flickered slightly after the living creature finished speaking. After the flicker, the residual law energy within the patterns was completely absorbed into the law membrane at the bottom of the crevice, which had already healed.
After the membrane wall healed, the inside of the crevice returned to extreme darkness and stillness, so still that one could hear the extremely subtle frictional sounds emitted by the law patterns flowing freely deep within the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation.
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe out of the crevice and carried it on his shoulder, looking down at the completely healed membrane of law at the bottom of the crevice.
The lingering essence of Pangu's last breath of law within the membrane wall completely dissipated after the mouth healed. Before dissipating, it returned the words that had sealed countless eons to the living beings, and also returned the last words, "I will protect you," to the living beings.
What Pangu left at the deepest part of the Guixu foundation was not a seal, not a node of law, not a fragment of axe blade, not bone and blood, not a backup plan, but a reply.
Before falling asleep, the creature asked Pangu to go outside the nest shell to see what was making noise. After Pangu shattered the fragments of the void, he returned to the depths of the Guixu Earth and replied to her last breath of law. After replying, he sealed her breath and those words together at the bottom of the crevice, using the laws of the nest shell to condense an extremely thin membrane, sealing it for countless eons until later generations came and opened it.
After being sealed off for so long, she finally heard it.
He tucked the Pangu Axe into his waistband and stepped outwards, following the slowly dissipating patterns of the nest's laws on the inner wall of the crevice.
As they reached the exit of the narrow passage, the aftershocks of the calamity at the alley entrance still danced with faint white arcs of electricity on the bluestone slabs. A Dou was squatting at the entrance of the weapon shop, using fragments of bone and blood to perform a new round of law resonance calibration on his small axe before it underwent quenching.
Steam rose from the steamer basket of the fried dough stick stall in the morning light, and Old Zhang's apron had a few more fresh oil splatters. The primordial chaos was extremely stable, and Pangu's reply had arrived.
After the crack healed, the depths of the Guixu foundation returned to extreme darkness and stillness.
In the final stage of evolution, the larval sensory network completed the last synchronization calibration of all law nodes. The calibration echo spread out deep in the white rock layer and collided with five key nodes: the sealing membrane wall, the fault healed joint, the heterogeneous isolation layer, the backup law node, and the vacuum of the isolation zone, and all of them were stabilized.
Xu withdrew all his perception of the heart's energy network from the direction of the crevice, and was about to put the stone embryo's core back into his bosom when the transparent law pattern on his fingertip suddenly twitched again.
This jump was weaker than any of his previous ones, so weak that it was almost his own illusion.
But then came the second jump, the third jump, the fourth jump, the frequency of the jumps getting faster and faster, so fast that the pale gold line on his chest flickered on its own in the extremely faint golden light of the Guixu foundation.
After the flash, Xu's expression changed.
He placed his right hand back on his chest, and all the sensory power of his heart pulse probed along that pulsation to the deepest part of the Guixu foundation.
When they reached the deepest point directly below the interface between the white rock layer and the mountain root, their perception was blocked by an extremely ancient law structure.
It is not a sealing membrane, not a mutant, not an isolation zone, and not a crevice.
It is a primordial law fault that has never been touched by any scan.
The fault line contained extremely faint fluctuations of laws, the frequency of which slightly overlapped with the primordial chaotic light on the blade of Pangu's axe and resonated with the Pangu bone and blood law imprints sealed within the bone and blood fragments.
Just as Su Fan reached the exit of the narrow passage, A Dou was squatting at the entrance of the weapons shop, using bone and blood fragments to calibrate the quenching precision of his small axe.
Steam rose from the steamer basket of the fried dough stick stall in the morning light, and Old Zhang was bending over to add coal briquettes to the stove.
The golden light of Mars is extremely stable.
Everything was quiet.
But the thin golden line on Su Fan's left palm suddenly felt a very slight burning sensation, a sensation that was extremely brief and mild, exactly the same as the burning sensation he felt when the Pangu Axe first recognized its master.
He took the Pangu Axe off his waist and looked down at the faint, primordial chaotic light on the axe blade.
The light was extremely faint and steady in the white steam from the youtiao stall's steamer, but the frequency of its pulse was slightly faster than usual.
"Ruins, is there something else beneath the ruins?"
"The primordial laws have broken down."
"The fault is located extremely deep directly below the junction of the nasal root, far exceeding the limit of any previous scan of the cardiac vascular network."
"The law fluctuations sealed inside the fault are not mutants, not primordial slurry, not the original liquid of the nest shell law."
"The frequency of the fluctuation is completely in sync with the original chaotic color on the blade of Pangu's axe."
"Pangu sealed the last thing in the fault line."
"It's not a fragment of an axe blade, not blood or bone, not a sealing mark, and not a reply."
"It's a paradox of the law."
Xu translated the internal laws and structures of the fault sensed by the heart's vascular network into specific information in his chest cavity. When he opened his eyes, his pale golden pupils reflected an extremely faint and ancient dark golden light from the deepest part of the foundation of Guixu. The frequency of the light's pulsation was completely synchronized with the frequency of the chaotic original light on the blade of Pangu's axe.
"Before Pangu separated heaven and earth, when he cleaved the first isolation zone at the boundary between the void and chaos, the blade of the Heaven-Opening Axe produced an extremely subtle paradox of the law the moment it came into contact with the mixed fragments of the laws of the void and chaos."
"The paradox is that the force that splits chaos is itself a part of chaos."
"Pangu discovered this paradox, separated it from the blade of the Heaven-Opening Axe, and sealed it into the primordial law fault deep within the foundation of the Ruins of Return."
"If the paradox remains on the axe blade, every law cleaved by the axe will carry the attribute of paradox. The cycle of chaotic laws will never be stable from the beginning, and the primordial world will never be built."
"The paradox was sealed within the fault line for countless eons, passively absorbing the extremely weak law fluctuations deep within the foundation of the Ruins. After absorption, the law structure inside the paradox transformed from extremely unstable to extremely stable."
"Once things stabilize, the paradox is no longer a paradox; it becomes the fundamental law of the foundation of the Ruins."
"The reason why the Guixu Foundation can withstand the superimposed pressure of so many law structures such as the sealing membrane wall, mutants, isolation zone, backup law nodes, and different frequency membrane wall is because the paradox inside the fault continuously releases extremely weak law support force at the bottom layer."
"The supporting force has raised the upper limit of the pressure bearing capacity of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation by at least several times."
"The paradox is now evolving on its own."
"Its absorption of law fluctuations is accelerating. After accelerating, the law pressure inside the fault is slowly increasing. Once it reaches its limit, the paradox will automatically release a law confirmation pulse."
"The content of the confirmed pulse is: 'The void has a bottom, and the primordial chaos will not sink.'"
Su Fan's hand holding the axe handle trembled slightly as he looked down at the faint, primordial chaotic light on the blade of the Pangu Axe.
The frequency of the light's pulse was accelerating, perfectly synchronized with the rising pressure of the paradoxical internal laws deep within the Guixu foundation.
"Pangu separated the paradox from the axe blade not to seal it up, but to allow it to evolve on its own."
"The law confirmation pulse that is automatically released after the paradoxical evolution is completed is the last line of defense he left for Guixu."
"All the previous backup plans—mutant sealing, isolation zone original liquid, backup law nodes, and heterogeneous membrane walls—were all branch applications of this paradox."
"The paradox lies at the bottom, which allows all the seals above to function stably."
"Now the paradox is about to evolve completely."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest and looked down at the transparent law pattern on his fingertip.
The pattern flickered extremely slightly as the pressure of the paradoxical law increased, and after the flicker, the law fluorescence on the surface of the pattern became slightly brighter than before.
This trace was extremely subtle, but Xu knew that it meant the law tolerance lost by the heart network in the process of sensing the paradox was being replenished in the opposite direction by the law support force released by the paradox.
"After the paradox has evolved, the fault line will automatically open once."
"The opening time is extremely short, but the supporting force of the laws inside the fault will release an extremely weak pulse of laws outward at the moment of opening. The pulse will be transmitted along the law patterns of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation to the sealing membrane wall, reinforcing the eternal slumber of the mutant inside the membrane wall once again."
"After reinforcement, the seal's strength doubles, making it impossible for the mutant to awaken again."
"The pulse is transmitted to the vacuum of the isolation zone, purifying the law-based environment inside the vacuum once again."
"Transmit to the backup law node Yukou, and completely absorb and transform the remaining Nest Shell Law Original Liquid Crystal at Yukou."
"It will be transmitted to the bottom of the crevice, completely sealing away the lingering echoes of Pangu's last words within the membrane, so that they will never dissipate again."
"Send the message to the South Heavenly Gate city wall and reinforce all the law nodes around the core fragment of Mount Sumeru once."
"Transmitted to the entrance of the Ruins of Desolation, significantly improving the anchoring accuracy of the Flint Beacon runes."
"The sound traveled to the bluestone slab at the entrance of the fried dough stick stall, calibrating the frequency of the aftershocks of the great calamity at the alley entrance to be completely synchronized with the supporting force of the paradoxical law."
Su Fan hoisted the Pangu Axe onto his shoulder, walked to the edge of the Guixu rift, and looked down at the primordial law fault line deep within the Guixu foundation that was slowly releasing the pressure of the laws.
The paradoxical evolutionary progress inside the fault is clearly displayed on the sensing array of the Eros monitoring station under the real-time monitoring of the larval sensing network. The progress bar has reached the final stage, and it will be completed in just one last step.
He took the broken mirror out of his waist and shone it towards the South Heavenly Gate.
"After the paradoxical evolution was completed, the fault line opened, the law pulse spread, and all the key law nodes in the primordial world were reinforced."
"Pangu's final move was not sealing, nor power, but logic—the power that split the chaos was itself a part of the chaos."
"If we accept this logic, the paradox of the law is no longer a paradox, but is transformed into the foundation of the law."
"He had already figured this out when he chopped out the first barrier with his axe."
"He sealed the paradox beneath the Ruins of Return, not to hide it, but to wait for future generations to finish all the battles, lay out all the seals, and put all the backup plans back in place. Then the paradox would automatically evolve and release the law confirmation pulse, transmitting the foundation of the primordial laws from the Ruins of Return upwards, reinforcing it layer by layer. In the end, the primordial world would no longer be a system of laws cleaved by Pangu with the axe of creation, but a symbiotic structure in which the four systems of laws—Ruins of Return, the Land of Ruins, the Southern Heavenly Gate, and the Mortal Realm—interlock and support each other."
Yang Jian pieced the two shattered mirrors together, and images of the real-time laws governing the paradoxical progress of evolution appeared on the mirror surface.
In the image, the dark golden light inside the fault is rising at a visible rate, and after reaching its limit, there is a very slight tremor in the very center of the fault.
After the tremor, the fault opened up by itself through a very fine opening, from which a bright pulse of law surged forth.
The pulse spread in all directions along the law patterns of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation. When it spread to the sealing membrane, it reinforced the eternal slumber of the mutants inside the membrane. When it spread to the vacuum of the isolation zone, it purified the law environment inside the vacuum. When it spread to the opening of the backup law node, it completely absorbed and transformed the remaining crystallized law liquid of the nest shell. When it spread to the bottom of the crevice, it completely sealed the law reverberation of Pangu's last words. When it spread to the city wall of Nantianmen, it reinforced all the law nodes around the core fragment of Mount Sumeru. When it spread to the entrance of the Ruins, it greatly improved the law anchoring accuracy of the flint beacon rune. When it spread to the bluestone slab at the entrance of the fried dough stick stall, it calibrated the jumping frequency of the aftershock of the calamity at the alley entrance to be completely synchronized with the supporting force of the paradox law.
A Dou was squatting at the entrance of the weapons shop, holding a small axe in his hand. The dark red law pattern on the axe blade flashed extremely slightly the moment the paradox pulse spread to the bluestone slab.
After flashing, he held the small axe up to his eyes and looked at the blade in the morning light.
With an extremely thin and sharp blade, its self-evolution speed has been further increased under the influence of paradoxical pulses.
He attached the bone and blood fragment to the edge of the quenching tank. The Pangu bone and blood law imprint inside the fragment flashed on its own under the blessing of the paradox pulse. After the flash, the temperature of the law slurry in the quenching tank automatically adjusted to a more precise critical point than before.
Old Zhang poked his head out from behind the stove. The steam from the fried dough stick stall's steamer rose higher and higher in the morning light, straighter and more stable than usual. This was because the frequency of the aftershocks of the calamity at the alley entrance had just been calibrated by the paradox pulse to be completely synchronized with the foundational laws of the Ruins of Return. The rising trajectory of the steam had been calibrated to be straighter than before.
Sun Wukong squatted on the ramparts of the South Heavenly Gate, his golden cudgel resting on his knees. His monkey eyes reflected the primordial law fault deep within the foundation of the Ruins of Return, which was slowly healing.
After the fault heals, the internal support force of the fault stabilizes at an extremely high level, raising the upper limit of the pressure bearing capacity of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation to a higher level.
He stuffed the last bite of peach into his mouth, chewed it twice, swallowed it, and threw the peach pit into the Guixu Crack.
The peach pit bounced twice at the edge of the crack and rolled into the depths of the Ruins of Return, where it was caught by the pale gold moss that had grown on the white rock layer of the foundation. The flowing patterns of laws on the surface of the moss wrapped around the peach pit and then dispersed on their own.
"The paradox of Pangu has evolved."
"The law confirms that the pulse has spread throughout the entire primordial world, and all key nodes have been reinforced."
"The void has a bottom, and the primordial chaos will not sink."
"This statement is the confirmation pulse of the law that Pangu sealed in the paradox. Once it reaches you, it is true. It is not a metaphor, but the foundation of the law."
"From this moment on, the entire system of laws of the primordial world, from the depths of the Ruins to the cobblestones of the fried dough stick stall, is now fully integrated."
"We don't know when the next battle will come."
"But it's very stable now."