bioinnovel Chapter 420 Rules
Chapter 420 Rules
The purple and gold pattern continued to extend slowly in the days that followed, at a much slower pace than the initial estimate.
So slow that Eros squatted on the edge of the fault and stared at it for three whole days, and the lines only moved forward by less than the width of a finger.
But the movement never stopped.
Every morning when the golden light of Mars bathes the walls of the Southern Heavenly Gate, Xu would squat at the edge of the crevice and scan the entire area of the white rock layer with his heart's pulse network. Each scan showed that the line had grown a little deeper.
One thread after another, inch after inch.
After transitioning between purple and gold seven times, the color of the pattern finally stabilized into an extremely pale silver-gray, mixed with very fine dark purple and gold threads. It was almost invisible in the dark, but under the light, it would emit a very thin and transparent fluorescent light.
On the morning of the eighth day, Ruins reported the scan results to Eros.
Eros stood at the edge of the white rock plateau. Ten transparent law patterns on his hands flashed against the backdrop of silver-gray patterns. After the flash, he didn't speak, but squatted down and touched the surface of the patterns with his fingertips.
There was a half-inch gap between his fingertips and the patterns, but Eros could sense an extremely slow and stable flow of laws moving along the patterns from the primordial end to the old domain.
The direction of movement is so clear that it requires no external guidance.
"This passage is forming itself."
Eros stood up and turned to look at the ruins.
"The completion time is longer than I expected, but it won't stop."
As the Law Flow moves, it continuously absorbs the paradoxical aftereffects within the White Rock Layer, transforming and then pouring them into the opening within the Old Domain.
As the opening is continuously filled, it will gradually expand. Once it reaches a certain width, the origin of the laws of the old domain can actively release law perception pulses into the primordial world through the channel.
"We won't need to wait for the messenger; we'll know what's happening inside the Old Realm ourselves."
Xu removed his right hand from his chest and looked down at the fine line on the outside of his ribcage that extended from the network of veins in his heart.
After the fine lines appeared in the silver-gray pattern, they also brightened slightly, and the bright spot coincided with the direction of the passage.
"I can vaguely sense what's happening inside the old domain."
Xu's voice was extremely low and steady.
"There is an extremely weak resonance of laws between the heart's vascular network and the texture of the white rock layer. The amplitude of the resonance is so subtle that it cannot be detected unless one deliberately tries to perceive it."
But the content of the resonance is very clear.
The opening within the old domain is gradually widening, and the first sensory pulse released by the origin of the laws of the old domain is already on its way.
The pulse travels very slowly because it has to squeeze through the not-yet-fully-opened channel.
But it is moving.
Keep moving.
Su Fan did not eat breakfast at the weapons shop entrance that day.
Before dawn, he carried the Pangu Axe to the South Heavenly Gate city wall, squatted next to the old city brick, and placed the broken mirror on his lap. The mirror reflected a panoramic view of the laws and patterns of the entire Guixu foundation white rock layer.
From the panoramic view, the silver-gray line starts from the center of the Guixu foundation fault, meanders southeastward along the original law veins of the white rock layer, and makes a very gentle turn at the foot of the South Heavenly Gate city wall, bypassing the foundation load-bearing layer directly below the core fragment of Mount Sumeru, and then continues to extend northeastward, disappearing at the edge of the shattered mirror after extending beyond the scope of the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
After using the shattered mirror to magnify the location where it disappeared, Su Fan saw a very faint layer of dark purple law mist, the edge of which was slowly spreading beyond the area covered by the mirror.
"The exit of the channel is on the outside of the membrane wall."
Su Fan put away the broken mirror, stood up, and moved the Pangu Axe off the city bricks.
"After circling the South Heavenly Gate city wall, it passed directly through the law pattern layer of the city wall foundation. After passing through, no primordial law barrier could stop it."
It leads directly to the membrane wall.
The membrane wall is now completely in sync with the old domain, so the channel will not encounter any resistance when passing through the membrane wall.
After passing through, the passage will continue deep into the void, extending all the way to directly below the opening inside the old domain.
He turned his head and looked in the direction of the Ruins of Return.
The golden light of Mars had illuminated most of the rift. The extremely dark, desolate environment at the edge of the rift appeared very thin and faint under the daylight. The outline of the seed of law deep within the rift could be vaguely seen pulsating slightly with an extremely steady rhythm.
The frequency of the heartbeat was almost synchronized with Su Fan's own heartbeat, so synchronized that Su Fan would not normally notice it. But now, as he squatted on the city wall and listened carefully, he could hear that with each heartbeat in his chest, the seed deep in the crack would expand and contract slightly.
"The seeds of law are breathing."
Su Fan hoisted the Pangu Axe back onto his shoulder.
"The rhythm of breathing is completely synchronized with the life form of the primordial laws, and this synchronization has continued for a very long time."
The long-term synchronous operation caused the sealed-in laws and memories within the seed to gradually unlock.
The content of the lifting of the lockdown is not from before, but from today.
Every day, the seed absorbs and seals away the subtle changes that occur in the primordial environment. After sealing, the seed's law structure will be adjusted slightly.
The adjusted seeds are better suited to the current primordial law environment than the original ones.
It is constantly evolving.
A Dou did not chop any dry branches that day.
He was summoned to the edge of the crevice early in the morning by Xu, who instructed him to use a small axe to chop a piece on each side of the silver-gray pattern.
After the two axe-wielding pre-chopping pulses struck, no law fragments were shaken out, but the law fluorescence on the surface of the pattern brightened slightly. After it brightened, the speed at which the pattern extended increased from the width of one finger per day to the width of two fingers per day.
"Pre-splitting pulses can accelerate channel penetration."
Xu squatted next to A Dou, his right hand inside his chest, sensing the speed of the laws flowing within the patterns.
"The principle of acceleration is not that external force forcibly widens the channel, but that the extremely subtle law vibrations generated after the pre-splitting pulse is injected make the paradoxical aftereffects inside the white rock layer flow more smoothly."
After the flow became smooth, the residual energy flowed into the old domain entrance at an accelerated speed, and as a result, the passage was naturally opened up at an even faster pace.
Adou, you shall come and chop three times a day, morning, noon, and evening, each time making one chop on each side of the pattern. When you chop, control the intensity of the pre-chop pulse so that it is not too strong, otherwise it will easily shatter the internal law flow structure of the pattern.
A Dou spat out the grass stalk he was holding in his mouth, nodded, tucked the small axe into his waistband, and ran back to the weapon shop to continue sharpening his axe blade, stepping on the bluestone slabs.
The gray-white aura of law on the axe blade, enhanced by the paradox pulse, has reached an extremely stable state, so stable that the intensity of the pre-chopping pulse generated by each axe strike is completely consistent, requiring no calibration or adjustment.
Time passed day by day as the silver-gray patterns slowly extended.
On the tenth day, the patterns extended to the outside of the membrane wall. The moment Eros passed through, he felt a slight tremor in the entire Guixu foundation as he stood on the white rock platform.
The tremor was extremely slight and brief, so slight that none of the soldiers eating breakfast on the South Heavenly Gate city wall noticed it, but a very faint and fine ripple of law was left on the remnants of the mirror's laws.
The ripples propagate back from the outer side of the membrane wall, and when they reach the center of the mirror, they transform into a completely unfamiliar frequency segment.
Su Fan held up the shattered mirror and stared at it in the sunlight for a very long time.
That frequency fragment of law was extremely unfamiliar, so unfamiliar that he had never sensed any similar law fluctuations within the primordial world.
However, the content of the fragment is extremely simple, so simple that it consists of only a very short and pure law pulse.
The pulse contained a very short sequence of law-based oscillations, the rhythm of which was about 70% similar to the breathing rhythm of the law seed deep within the Ruins of Return.
"The first sensory pulse of the Old Domain's fundamental laws has arrived."
Xu stood up from the edge of the crevice, his fingertips trembling slightly as he pulled his right hand out from his chest.
"The pulse passed through the newly opened channel, and after passing through, it was transmitted to the broken mirror along the law-like patterns of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation."
The laws of the shattered mirror automatically analyzed the contents of the pulse.
The content is a very short sequence of rule-based greetings, the meaning of which is—"
He paused for a moment, looking down at the faint, dark purple glow emanating from his fingertips.
"—'Primordial Chaos, can you hear me?'"
Su Fan took the shattered mirror down from his eyes and looked down at the extremely unfamiliar law frequency fragment on the mirror surface as it gradually weakened and dissipated.
The dissipation was extremely slow, so slow that even after the traces of the laws on the mirror surface had completely faded, a faint tremor lingered on the fingertips.
He turned his head and looked in the direction of the Ruins of Return.
The seed of law deep within the crack pulsated slightly at the moment the old domain's perception pulse arrived. After the change, it returned to its original rhythm, but the amplitude of the pulsation after the return was half a millimeter larger than before.
The seed was extremely fine, so fine that it was almost indistinguishable without careful observation. However, Su Fan squatted on the city wall and stared at the seed for a very long time, confirming that he had not misjudged it.
"The seed of the law is responding."
Su Fan's voice was extremely low.
"The seed's pulsation amplitude increases because it receives a sensory pulse released from the old domain."
The pulse and the internal law memory of the seed generated an extremely weak resonance, after which the seed automatically adjusted its own law structure.
After the adjustment, the seed's sensitivity to fluctuations in the laws of the old domain increased by an extremely subtle level.
From now on, the seeds will be able to sense any sensory pulses released from the old domain more clearly.
That evening, Eros walked to the South Heavenly Gate city wall and stood next to Su Fan. Ten transparent law patterns on his hands shone with a faint dark purple light under the reflection of the city wall's golden patterns.
He looked down at the last lingering trace of the law frequency fragment that had completely dissipated on the shattered mirror, and remained silent for a long time.
"When the original source of the old domain's laws released this sensory pulse, the opening inside should have already expanded enough to allow the fluctuations of the laws to pass smoothly."
The fact that the pulse can pass through indicates that the channel is completely open.
After the connection is established, the original laws of the old domain will continuously release perception pulses, and the frequency and content of the pulses will become increasingly higher and higher.
Once the pulse's content becomes rich enough, we will be able to directly see the panoramic view of the laws and structures within the old domain through the shattered mirror.
By then, messengers will no longer be needed for communication between the Primordial World and the Old Realms.
Su Fan put the Pangu Axe down from his shoulder, the blade touching the ground, and turned to look at Eros.
"After Eos returned, did anything else happen within the Old Realm?"
Can you sense it using the principle of different frequencies in your array?
Eros shook his head.
"The limit of how the heterogeneous frequency law sensing array can capture the law fluctuations within the old domain is on the outside of the membrane wall."
Although the sensory pulses can be transmitted after the channel is completed, the pulses will naturally attenuate during the process of passing through the channel. By the time they reach the end of the white rock layer, they will only have one-tenth of their original strength.
One-tenth is enough for us to determine the general content and direction of the pulse, but not enough for us to see the fine structure inside the old domain.
To see the fine structure, we need to wait for the channel to be widened further.
After widening, pulse attenuation will decrease, and information loss will be reduced.
"Can the passage be widened further?" Su Fan asked.
"able."
Eros raised his hands, and the ten transparent law patterns shone briefly in the reflection of the city wall's golden patterns.
"The width of the channel is now only as thin as a finger, so thin that only extremely weak law pulses can pass through it."
However, the white rock layer continues to absorb the aftereffects of the paradox, and after absorption, it continues to pour into the channel. The process of pouring in is itself a process of continuous widening.
Based on the current speed, it will take approximately—"
He looked down and counted; the transparent law patterns on his fingertips flashed seven times.
It will take about 300 more days.
Three hundred days later, the width of the passage will expand from the width of a finger to the width of a palm.
A palm's width was enough to allow the complete image of the laws released within the old domain to be transmitted seamlessly to the shattered mirror through the channel.
Then we'll be able to see what the old realm is really like.
"Three hundred days." Su Fan slung the Pangu Axe back over his shoulder. "That's not a long time."
The days that followed became very regular.
Every morning when the golden light of Mars illuminates the walls of the South Heavenly Gate, A Dou squats precisely on either side of the silver-gray patterns on the foundation of Guixu and chops with his axe twice.
Three times a day, morning, noon, and night, two axes each time. After chopping, the law-like fluorescence on the surface of the pattern will light up for a while, and after it stops lighting up, the width of the channel will steadily increase by a little bit every day.
Every evening, Eros uses the Law of Different Frequency to scan the channel's connectivity once, synchronizing the scan data to the Law remnants on the shattered mirror.
Every morning at dawn, Xu would squat on the edge of the crevice and use his heart network to perform a full-domain fatigue test. The test results showed that after A Dou's five axe blows cleared away the accumulated fatigue, the five key nodes were operating very stably, with no new signs of fatigue appearing.
The sensory pulses of the original laws of the old domain stopped for three days after arriving on the first day.
On the fourth day, before dawn, the heart network of the Ruins was the first to sense the extremely faint vibration transmitted through the channel by the second pulse.
The vibration was transmitted along the patterns of the white rock layer to the broken mirror. The residual laws of the broken mirror were automatically received and analyzed, and the analyzed content was much longer than the first one.
The second pulse contains a very short and thick image of a law-based structure.
The image was so blurry that almost no details could be seen; the only discernible feature was a bright, dark purple halo slowly rotating on an extremely dark background.
The halo rotated extremely slowly, so slowly that Su Fan stared at the shattered mirror for a full incense stick's time before he could barely make out that it was actually rotating.
The edge of the halo has extremely fine patterns extending outwards, and the way they extend is very similar to the silver-gray pattern on the white rock layer.
"This is a scene from the core of the ancient domain's laws."
Eros stood beside Su Fan, the transparent law patterns on his hands glowing faintly in the light of the shattered mirror.
"The halo is the core of the original laws of the old domain, and the patterns extending from its edges are fragments of the ancient law membrane that it shed."
Those fragments drifted in the void within the old domain, each one sealing information about the laws of the old domain from a different era.
Eos is just the latest piece in this series.
Su Fan raised the shattered mirror a little higher, and the blurry image on the mirror surface became clearer under the continuous analysis of the remnants of the laws.
Once clear, three extremely fine indentations can be faintly seen on the surface of the dark purple halo. The three indentations are arranged side by side with very even spacing, and their shape looks like they were knocked out from the side by something extremely blunt.
"The back of Pangu's axe."
Su Fan stared at the three indentations for a very long time.
"When Pangu struck the ground three times, each strike left a dent on the surface of the core of the original laws of the old domain."
The three depressions within the old domain have sealed away countless eons, and have never been repaired by any law power.
It's not that it can't be repaired, it's that the original laws of the old domain have chosen not to repair it.
The fact that the dent remains indicates that the original source of the ancient domain's laws always remembered the three sentences that Pangu struck.
It remembered the content of those words, when they were spoken, and how thick the law-based membrane separated the primordial world and the old realm when they were spoken.
Eros did not speak.
He looked down at the ten transparent law patterns on his fingertips. After the patterns were transmitted from the core image of the old domain, they flashed twice on their own. After they finished flashing, the color of the law fluorescence on the surface of the patterns changed from transparent to a very pale dark purple, with a trace of gold mixed in.
"The law of different frequencies synchronizes with the law frequency of the old domain."
Eros opened his palm, and ten lines converged in his palm to form a very faint purple-gold halo.
"After the Heterogeneous Frequency Law became independent, it has been calibrating its own law benchmark on its own."
After the old domain sensing pulses are continuously transmitted, the sensing array of the different frequency law continuously absorbs the characteristic data of the old domain law fluctuations, and then gradually adjusts its own sensing sensitivity.
Ultimately, the perception benchmark of the Different Frequency Law will become an intermediate state between the two law systems of the Primordial Era and the Old Domain.
At that time, the Law of Different Frequency will be able to accurately perceive the changes in the laws within the Primordial World, and also accurately analyze any law signals released by the Old Domain.
It is no longer an external law, nor is it a primordial, native law; it is an inherent law of the bridge itself.
"The bridge is growing." Su Fan tucked the shattered mirror back into his waistband. "The bridge's laws and attributes are also growing."
After the second pulse, the perception pulses of the original laws of the old domain began to be released at a fixed rhythm.
One dose every three days, each time released before dawn.
The heart network of the Ruins became the first law-sensing organ to capture the pulse signal. Before each pulse arrived, the fine line on the outside of his ribs would light up for half an incense stick's time. After it finished lighting up, the law remnants of the shattered mirror would automatically enter the receiving state.
The content of the received pulses became clearer with each one. Initially, only the outline of a halo could be seen, but by the tenth pulse, the approximate number of law membrane fragments floating in the void within the old domain could be discerned.
When the fifteenth pulse arrived, for the first time, images from within the old domain, excluding the core of the original law, appeared on the remnants of the shattered mirror.
The image was extremely blurry, but it was possible to discern that the core was surrounded by numerous, extremely fine filaments of light, which extended out from the core's surface and into the far depths of the void.
The number of light filaments was so great that the remnants of the laws of the shattered mirror experienced a brief overload and light overflow at the moment of resolution.
"Those filaments of light are the law-detecting tentacles released by the origin of the old domain's laws across countless dimensional realms."
Xu pulled his right hand out from his chest, his fingertips glowing with a faint purple-gold light.
Each tentacle is connected to a law branch node within the old domain.
The nodes are distributed in various corners within the old domain. Some were left by the life forms of the old domain's laws, some were split off from the original source of the old domain's laws, and some were formed after the law scars carved into the old domain by the invasion of the extraterrestrial gods were healed.
All the tentacles are connected to the core, through which the information of the laws is gathered and distributed.
The origin of the laws of the old domain has never been isolated; it has built a complete network of law perception within itself.
The network is far larger than the primordial array of laws-sensing entities; so large that what we can currently see is only a very small, extremely peripheral portion of it.
Su Fan tucked the broken mirror back into his waistband, walked to the edge of the Guixu Crack, and squatted down.
The seed of law deep within the crack, under the continuous stimulation of fifteen pulses, was pulsating much larger than it had initially. The rhythm of its pulsation was still perfectly synchronized with the heartbeat of the primordial law life form, but with each pulsation, a very thin layer of dark purple law halo would appear on its surface.
The halo flashes and disappears in an instant; after it fades, the internal structure of the seed will undergo a slight adjustment.
"The seed is growing."
Su Fan reached his hand into the edge of the crack, sensing the temperature of the laws on the surface of the seed from a distance of half a zhang.
"Its size is about 10% larger than it was originally."
One percent may not seem like much, but its growth rate is accelerating.
Each time an old domain perception pulse arrives, the seed grows a little bit.
At this rate, the seed will be almost twice as big in 300 days.
After doubling, the seed's law capacity will also double, and after doubling, it will be able to seal much more primordial law memories than it does now.
At that time, the entire process of the primordial world from its birth to its completion of evolution will be completely sealed within the seed, without a single drop being lost.
Time continues to flow.
The silver-gray patterns widened slowly at a rate imperceptible to the naked eye under A Dou's continuous pre-chops three times a day.
By the thirtieth day, the width of the lines had increased from one finger to two fingers.
On the morning of the thirtieth day, when the tenth perception pulse of the origin of the laws of the old domain arrived at the shattered mirror, the image was so clear that every detail of the texture of the three axe-back indentations on the core surface could be seen.
The texture is extremely deep and stable, and the concave edges show no signs of repair or restoration, maintaining the original form from the moment Pangu struck it.
At the bottom of the depression lay extremely faint golden fragments of law. Under the reflection of the dark purple halo of the core, the fragments shone with a very faint golden light, like three seeds of law left by Pangu in the core of the old domain.
On the sixtieth day, the passageway was widened to three fingers wide.
For the first time, a moving object appeared in the sensory pulse released by the origin of the Old Domain Laws.
The remnants of the laws on the shattered mirror showed that a very small number of light threads around the core were wriggling on their own. The wriggling was so small that Su Fan almost missed it when he first looked at it.
But after watching it three times, I confirmed that there were indeed light threads moving. The way they moved was not because they were being dragged by an external force, but because of the natural peristalsis generated when the internal laws flowed and transported themselves.
"Those filaments of light are alive."
Xu crouched on the edge of the crevice, his right hand tucked into his chest, sensing the synchronized fluctuations of the laws transmitted through him.
"Within the light filament, there is an extremely faint life force of laws flowing on its own."
That vitality was not actively bestowed by the original laws of the old domain, but was naturally generated by the light filaments themselves after absorbing the residual laws dissipating from within the old domain over an extremely long period of time.
They maintain an extremely stable symbiotic relationship with the core of the old domain's fundamental laws. The core provides the energy needed to sustain the light filaments, while the light filaments feed back the detected law data to the core.
On the 90th day, the width of the passage widened to four fingers.
The sensory pulse image received by the shattered mirror was clear enough to see the number and direction of the law light filaments around the core.
After Su Fan magnified the image on the mirror to its limit, he counted for a full hour, and the total number of light threads he counted was 3,789.
Each filament of light is connected to a law node at its end. The nodes vary in shape. Some are fragments and remnants of law membranes, some are dormant cocoons of law life forms, some are scar crystals left after law fissures have healed, and some are law structures that Su Fan cannot recognize at all.
Those unrecognizable law structures floated silently in the void within the old domain, their forms extremely stable, their surfaces emitting a faint glow of law, like some ancient law instrument that had automatically entered standby mode after being left unused for a long time within the old domain.
On the 120th day, the passageway was widened to five fingers wide.
A Dou's daily routine of three rounds of six-axe pre-chops never stopped. The gray-white aura on the axe blade not only did not diminish under the continuous high-intensity pre-chops over the past four months, but instead became brighter and more stable than before.
Su Fan would occasionally squat on the threshold of the weapons shop to watch A Dou sharpen his axe blade. He could see an extremely fine layer of purple-gold threads slowly moving within the gray-white halo.
"The little axe is evolving."
Su Fan put down the half-eaten steamed bun and pointed at the small axe in A Dou's hand.
"The purple-gold threads in the gray-white halo are the imprint of the channel law frequency."
Every day, A Dou would chop with his axe on both sides of the passage, his pre-chopping pulses penetrating the law structure of the passage's edge. Each penetration would leave a very faint imprint of the passage's law on the axe blade.
After more than four hundred days, the mark accumulated to a certain extent, and the axe blade's own law attributes were sublimated.
The pre-cleaving pulse emitted by the sublimated axe blade carries the frequency of the channel law, allowing it to more precisely target areas where the law flow is stagnant when cleaving the sides of the channel.
A Dou flipped the axe blade over, looked at the halo of law with purple-gold threads floating on a gray-white background in the sunlight, grinned, tucked the axe into his waistband, and ran back to the edge of the Ruins Crack to chop the two axe blows he had swung this evening.
On the 150th day, the 50th perception pulse of the Old Domain Law Origin arrived at the Shattered Mirror.
This time, the visuals were completely different from before.
For the first time, the golden law fragments deposited in the three axe-back depressions on the core surface began to ripple with rhythmic golden law. The ripples spread outwards from the bottom of the depressions, and after reaching the core surface, they merged into the dark purple halo and disappeared.
The frequency of the ripples was exactly the same as the pulsating frequency of the seed of law deep within the Ruins of Return.
Su Fan squatted on the South Heavenly Gate city wall, the shattered mirror lying flat on his knees, staring at the golden ripples spreading from the three indentations on the mirror surface for a long time.
With each ripple that spreads out, the residual traces of the mirror's laws tremble in sync, the rhythm of the tremor perfectly matching his heartbeat.
"The three blows that Pangu struck sealed more than just three sentences deep within the core of the old domain."
Su Fan's voice was extremely low and steady, as if he were talking to himself.
"In addition to the three sentences, three extremely faint golden law pulses were also sealed."
The pulse was sealed within the law fragments at the bottom of the axe's recessed back, and countless energy points remained unreleased.
Now, the original source of the laws of the old domain is continuously releasing perception pulses into the primordial world through the channel. The frequency of the perception pulses resonates synchronously with the frequency of the seed's pulsation, generating extremely faint law echoes.
The echo flowed back along the passage to the depths of the old domain's core, striking the golden law fragments at the bottom of the depression and activating the golden pulses sealed within them.
Golden pulses were released outward in circles, following the rhythm of the echo, with the frequency of the released pulses perfectly matching the pulsation frequency of the seed.
Pangu foresaw not only paradoxical evolution, autonomous breathing, and the seeds of laws, but also that the three strikes he made would be reactivated by the echoes of laws in the extremely distant future.
After activation, the golden pulse will continue to be released outwards, and all 3,789 law filaments inside the core of the old domain will receive the pulse signal. Then, the filaments will adjust their own law operation frequency. After adjustment, the law network inside the entire old domain will form a cross-domain law resonance with the law seeds in the primordial world.
Once resonance is formed—
Su Fan paused for a moment.
He looked down at his hand holding the shattered mirror.
The knuckles of her hand were trembling slightly, the frequency of the trembling perfectly synchronized with the rhythm of the golden ripples spreading across the mirror surface.
"Once resonance is formed, no external force will be needed to maintain the connection between the primordial wilderness and the old domain."
The membrane is still there, but the law-based life forms on both sides of the membrane can directly sense each other's presence through law resonance at their respective locations.
What was sensed was not just the fluctuation of laws, but consciousness itself.
He picked up the shattered mirror from his knees and turned to look in the direction of the Ruins of Return.
The seed of law deep within the crack pulsated even more intensely the moment the golden ripples transmitted it. The rhythm of the pulsation remained as steady as before, but the dark purple aura of law emanating from the seed's surface with each pulsation was so intense that it could be discerned at a glance without needing to stare at it.
The halo shone in the extremely dark, desolate environment, with a thin layer of gold shining through the dark purple. The purple and gold colors were exactly the same as the law-like glow on the silver-gray channel patterns.
"The bridge is finished."
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe from the edge of the city bricks and carried it on his shoulder.
"A bridge is not just a passage; a bridge is the entire resonant system."
The channel is merely the pipe wall; resonance is what flows within that pipe wall.
He walked towards the direction of the Guixu Crack.
Eros stood at the edge of the white rock plateau, activating all ten transparent law patterns on his hands, and the different frequency law perception array emitted a continuous low hum within its core.
The frequency of the buzzing, the pulsating frequency of the seed deep in the crack, and the release frequency of the golden ripples on the surface of the old domain core completely overlapped, forming a super thick and stable law resonance membrane. The membrane slowly spread from the center of the Guixu foundation to all directions. When it spread to the South Heaven Gate city wall, all the golden patterns lit up at the same time. After the light stopped, a super thin and transparent purple-gold light membrane appeared on the surface of the city wall.
The optical film is extremely stable.
The light-blocking film does not block anything.
The light membrane was just there, like a primordial law-based life form fully perceiving its own heartbeat echoing in an extremely distant place for the first time.
Xu stood up from the edge of the crevice, his right hand emerging from his chest cavity, his fingertips glowing with an extremely bright purple-gold light.
He looked down at his palm, and the life vein patterns on his palm turned completely purple-gold at this moment. The purple-gold veins extended and wove on their own in his palm, forming an extremely fine and dense pattern of laws.
The diagram contains the precise location and operational status of each of the 3,789 law filaments within the core of the old domain.
"Resonance has been formed."
Xu's voice was very soft.
"All the law filaments inside the core of the old domain completed their frequency adjustment after receiving the golden pulse."
After the adjustment, the operating frequency of the light filaments and the pulsating frequency of the primordial law seed were completely synchronized, to the point that each of the 3,789 light filaments was pulsating in unison with the rhythm of the seed.
The simultaneous pulsation of the three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine light filaments generated a complex law-based oscillation that formed an extremely stable law resonance field within the old domain.
The resonance field covers all the law spaces within the old domain. Any law fluctuations within its coverage area can be simultaneously perceived by the resonance field and transmitted to the primordial world.
The reverse is also true.
Any fluctuation of laws on this primordial side, as long as its intensity exceeds an extremely low threshold, can be sensed in reverse by the resonance field and transmitted to the old domain.
Su Fan walked to the edge of the White Rock Plateau, stood next to Eros, planted the Pangu Axe on the ground, supported himself with both hands on the top of the axe handle, and looked down at the seed of law deep in the crack.
The seed's purple-gold halo shone brightest at that moment, so bright that it illuminated the entire extremely dark, desolate environment at the bottom of the Guixu crack as a dark purple-gold.
The halo continued to spread outwards, and when it reached the edge of the crack, it spread along the law patterns of the white rock layer towards the South Heavenly Gate. When it reached the city wall, it merged with the purple-gold light membrane. After merging, the entire South Heavenly Gate was covered with an extremely thin and transparent purple-gold light.
"The seed of law, generated after the first autonomous breath of the primordial law-based life form, completed its final self-calibration under the continuous infusion of sensory pulses from the origin of the old domain's laws and the resonance activation of Pangu's golden pulses."
Eros's voice sounded extremely distant and empty within the resonance field of the laws.
"After the calibration is completed, the seed is no longer just a container for sealing the memories of the primordial laws; it has become the core hub for the resonance of laws between the primordial world and the old domain."
All law fluctuations released from the primordial end will be received by the seed and translated into law frequencies that the old domain can recognize, and then transmitted over. All law fluctuations released from the old domain will be received by the 3,789 light threads and translated into law frequencies that the primordial end can recognize, and then transmitted over.
Two-way.
No intermediaries are needed, no laws are needed to perforate the membrane wall, and no external forces are needed to maintain it.
As long as the seed continues to pulsate and the light filaments continue to rotate, the resonance will not cease.
Su Fan removed his hand from the Pangu Axe, squatted down, and reached his hand into the edge of the Guixu Crack.
The distance between his fingers and the seed was much closer than before—the seed had continued to grow over the past few months, and its size had more than doubled from its original size, with the surface of the sphere less than an arm's length from the edge of the crack.
He could feel the temperature of the purple-gold halo on the seed's surface—neither hot nor cold, like the slow, steady pulse of a life form.
"I can sense the old domain."
Su Fan's voice was extremely soft.
"The pulsation of the seed brings not only the frequency of the laws, but also an extremely faint aftertaste of consciousness."
Within the old domain, some of the law nodes connected to the ends of those law threads contain ancient echoes of consciousness.
The echoes were extremely faint and fragmented, but it was discernible that their source was not the original source of the laws of the old domain, but the last fragment of consciousness left behind by an ancient law-based life form that once lived within the old domain before its demise.
The fragments were captured and sealed by the end of the light filament. After being sealed, they remained inside the node and were never read by any external force.
Now that resonance has formed, the law frequency of the fragments is transmitted to the core through the light filaments, the core is transmitted to the seed through resonance, and the seed brings out the residual consciousness from the fragments through pulsation.
The echoes were extremely simple, so simple that only one sentence kept repeating itself—"
Su Fan withdrew his hand from the edge of the crack, stood up, and looked down at the purplish-gold rock powder clinging to his fingertips.
The powder slowly dispersed within the resonance field of the laws, each particle shimmering with an extremely faint purple-gold light as it dispersed.
"--go home."
Eros did not speak.
He extinguished the ten transparent law patterns on his hands one by one and stood next to Su Fan.
The seed of law deep within the Guixu rift was still pulsating at an extremely steady and slow pace, its purple-gold halo spreading outwards in circles, merging into a very faint layer of law radiance within the purple-gold light membrane on the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
The radiance enveloped the entire South Heavenly Gate, the White Rock Terrace and the Guixu Foundation, and even the A Dou who was squatting at the entrance of the weapons shop sharpening his axe and the white arcs of electricity dancing on the bluestone slabs at the alley entrance.
At this moment, the primordial law-based life form completed its entire journey from birth to evolution to autonomous breathing to the sealing of the law seed and the formation of cross-domain resonance.
The three sentences left behind by Pangu when he struck the ground three times have all come true at this moment, and all the things he had not foreseen have also grown up.
The bridge is finished.
Resonance was formed.
The distance between the Old Realm and the Primordial World was stitched together by a purple-gold bloodline of law.
Once sewn together, the two sides no longer need to guess what the other is thinking through the membrane wall; the resonance field will relay their message.
Su Fan turned and walked towards the weapons shop.
With the Pangu Axe slung over his shoulder and the shattered mirror hanging at his waist, he walked at a steady pace.
A Dou stood up from the threshold, tucked the sharpened axe into his waistband, and followed behind him, stepping on the bluestone slabs into the alley.
Eros stood still, watching as the purple-gold halo deep within the Guixu rift slowly receded back onto the seed's surface. After it receded, the seed's pulsating rhythm became as steady as the pulse of the primordial world itself.
Xu squatted back to the edge of the crevice and inserted his right hand back into his chest cavity. The heart's vascular network shimmered with a faint purple-gold light in the resonance field of the laws.
The aftershock of the cataclysmic event at the alley entrance extinguished itself after completing its final white arc of electricity on the bluestone slab.
It wasn't destroyed by anyone; rather, the extremely subtle tension within the law-based environment was completely dissipated after the resonance field stabilized.
The aftershocks of the great calamity, after dissipation, transformed into extremely faint white dust particles that drifted in the air at the alley entrance. As they drifted, each dust particle changed from pure white to purple-gold.
The primordial world was extremely stable.
The old area was extremely quiet.
The bridge is breathing.