sbdcsierra Chapter 421 Scene
Chapter 421 Scene
On the first morning after the resonance occurred, the purple-gold light film on the Nantianmen city wall was slightly thinner than the previous day.
It was so thin that Eros stood at the edge of the white rock plateau and used the Different Frequency Law Perception Array to scan it three times before he could confirm that it was indeed getting thinner.
When he transmitted the scan results to Xu, Xu was squatting on the edge of the crevice, using his heart network to scan the daily law nodes. After sensing the data, he pulled his right hand out of his chest cavity and looked down at the purple-gold law diagram in his palm. The position and operation of the 3,789 light threads on the diagram were exactly the same as yesterday, without any deviation or fluctuation.
"The light film thins because the resonant field is tightening itself."
Xu stood up and walked to the edge of the White Rock Terrace.
"After the resonance was formed, the initial membrane coverage area was too large, covering the entire surface of the Nantianmen city wall and most of the surface of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation."
But that membrane is not something that needs to be maintained; it is simply a layer of residual ripples from the laws that naturally arise at the moment the resonant field is formed.
After the resonant field stabilizes, the diffuse layer will automatically contract inward, and it will not thin further until it reaches a thickness that perfectly matches the energy output rhythm of the resonant core.
Eros activated half of the ten transparent law patterns on his hands, and the dark purple glow at his fingertips flickered in the morning light.
"After shrinking to the matching thickness, the light film will stabilize. Once stabilized, its function is no longer to cover, but to continuously release extremely weak law-guided pulses."
The guiding pulse will continue to radiate outward along the coverage area of the resonance field. The direction of the radiation is not towards the old domain, but towards the natural extension direction of all law nodes inside the primordial world.
The purpose of those pulses is to continuously calibrate the extremely subtle law drifts that may occur during the autonomous operation of the primordial law-based life form, correcting these drifts before they accumulate into fatigue.
Su Fan woke up later than usual that day.
He lay on the wooden bed in the inner room of the weapons shop, and when he opened his eyes, the golden light of Mars was already seeping in through the cracks in the window.
He didn't rush to get up; instead, he stretched his hand out from under the covers and placed it on the broken mirror.
The panoramic view of the purple-gold resonance field on the mirror-like law remnant was extremely stable and bright, with its coverage area clearly marked—centered on the South Heavenly Gate, extending eastward to the root of the membrane wall at the end of the East Sea, westward to the boundary line where the aftershocks of the great calamity remained at the edge of the primordial continent, northward to the heart of the never-melting law ice plain, and southward to the boundary zone where the fragments of the laws of sentient beings and the laws of Buddhism merged.
The entire core area of the primordial law life form was shrouded in a faint purple-gold glow from the resonance field.
He put the broken mirror back on his pillow, sat up, and put on his shoes.
A Dou was already squatting on the threshold outside the door, sharpening his small axe. The gray-white and purple-gold threads on the axe blade shone brightly in the morning light.
Su Fan walked out of the house and squatted down next to A Dou to watch him finish sharpening the axe blade one last time. The halo was so stable that there was not a single tremor.
"We don't need to clear the tunnel today," Su Fan said.
A Dou looked up at him and took the grass stem out of his mouth. "Does the passage no longer need to be widened?"
"The passage has widened to the width of a hand, enough for the complete image of the laws to pass through."
Further widening is not very meaningful, as the dependence of the law resonance on the channel width decreases significantly after resonance is formed.
Even if the channel is narrowed by half, the resonant field will not be interrupted, because the core of resonance is the frequency synchronization between the seed and the filament, not the physical width of the channel itself.
The passageway now merely functions as a pipe wall; the contents inside no longer rely on the pipe wall for movement.
A Dou tucked the small axe into his waistband, stood up, and dusted off his knees. "So, what are we chopping today?"
"I'm not chopping anything today." Su Fan stood up and walked towards the direction of the Ruins of Return. "Today I'm going to listen to what the Old Domain has to say."
When he arrived at the White Rock Plateau, Eros and Ruins were already standing on the edge of the rift.
After the resonance was formed, the seed of law deep in the Guixu rift pulsated with a rhythm as stable as the heartbeat of the primordial world itself. The purple-gold halo expanded and contracted in circles in the extremely dark environment of the void.
Su Fan squatted at the edge of the crack and reached his hand in. This time, his fingers were less than half an arm's length away from the surface of the seed.
The seed has continued to grow for so long that its size has nearly doubled since its initial size, and the temperature of the aura of law on the surface of the purple-gold sphere is more stable and warmer than before.
"The seeds are continuously unlocking the sealed memories of the laws."
Eros squatted down next to Su Fan.
"Early this morning, I sensed the first complete scene of the early evolution of a primordial life form being released from within the seed."
The scene was extremely short, showing a very blurry nascent form of a law-based life form struggling to stand up at the edge of the primordial law rift in the very center of the prehistoric continent.
It stood up many times, and each time it collapsed back into loose law fragments because the law structure was not yet fully stable.
It collapsed and then stood up again, stood up and then collapsed again, collapsed and then stood up again.
I don't know how many times it stood there, but on the last time it finally stood still.
After it came to a stop, its legal structure automatically tightened, and its form transformed from loose fragments into the outline of a complete primordial primordial law-based life form.
Su Fan remained silent.
He looked down at the seed deep in the crack. The rhythm of the purple-gold halo flowing on the surface of the seed and the rhythm of the three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine light threads pulsating synchronously on the diagram in the palm of the Void were completely superimposed, forming an extremely thick and dense layer of law noise.
The background noise is extremely low and stable, like the universe itself breathing slowly.
"New footage has also been sent over from the Old Territory this morning."
Xu walked over from the edge of the crevice, squatted down on the other side of Su Fan, and pulled his right hand out from his chest and spread it out.
The purple-gold pattern in the palm magnified a local area under the light—among the 3,789 light filaments around the core of the old domain, a very thin layer of law mist appeared on the surface of the end node of one light filament.
The mist was extremely pale, somewhere between dark purple and silver-white, and under the dark purple halo of the old domain's core, it looked like a wisp of smoke slowly drifting away.
"The law node that this light filament connects to was in a state of extreme stillness yesterday."
After the resonance field stabilized to a certain depth early this morning, the internal law structure of the node vibrated on its own.
The vibration was extremely slight and brief, but after it ended, the lingering consciousness of the ancient law-based life form sealed within the node was activated.
After activation, the echo seeped out from inside the node, traveled along the light filament to the core, and from the core to the seed through the resonant field. The seed then traveled through the resonant field to my heart's vascular network.
"What did that lingering echo say?" Su Fan asked.
The market paused for a moment.
He looked down at the mist of law at the end of the light thread in his palm. The shape of the mist was slowly changing, gradually shrinking from a blurry wisp of smoke into an extremely short and fine ripple of law.
The shape of the ripples resembles a hand reaching out in a certain direction in the void, palm facing up, fingers slightly spread.
That lingering echo was not expressed in words.
Xu's voice was extremely soft.
Its content is action.
An ancient law-based life form that had floated alone in the void within the old domain for countless eons made its last move before its demise by reaching out its hand into the depths of the void.
The hand was stretched out towards the side of the primordial wilderness.
It was unaware of the existence of the primordial world, unaware of what lay behind the membrane, and only reached its hand into the depths of the void in its final moments before dissipating.
The meaning of that action was—wanting to touch something.
Su Fan remained silent for a long time.
How many remnants of consciousness are sealed within those law nodes within the old domain?
"Xu just used the cardiac pulse network to synchronously scan the old domain law data transmitted from the resonance field."
Eros stood up, activating all ten transparent law patterns on his hands. The dark purple glow at his fingertips flickered several times under the purple-gold halo of the seed.
"Preliminary statistics show that among the law nodes connected at the ends of the 3,789 light filaments, about 700 nodes contain varying degrees of residual consciousness of law-based life forms."
The vast majority of the reverberations within the seven hundred nodes had shattered to the point of being almost unrecognizable, leaving only extremely faint and thin echoes of the laws slowly circulating within the nodes.
However, about thirty of these nodes have relatively intact remnants, so intact that the extremely brief behavioral traces left by the conscious subject before their demise can be discerned.
The marks varied in content; some showed a hand reaching out, some a head turning, and some showed someone standing still for a long time before slowly squatting down and curling up into a ball.
The most complete echo came from the farthest node at the end of a filament of light—the echo sealed at that node contained the content of a law-based life form standing in the void within the old domain, facing the direction of the primordial chaos, for an extremely long time, and then slowly performing an action.
"What is it?"
Eros opened his palm.
Ten transparent law patterns converged in his palm into an extremely thin beam of dark purple light, which spread out in the air to form a very short and blurry image of the law.
In the image, a very faint human figure stands in a dark void, facing the same direction and standing motionless for the number of breaths shown in the image.
Then the silhouette bent down, squatted down, placed its hands in the air, and pressed its forehead against the back of its hands.
"I knelt down," Su Fan said in a low voice.
He knelt down.
Eros pulled the image back into his palm.
"After kneeling down, the silhouette remained in that position for a very long time."
The video doesn't show what happened to it afterward because the echo ended there.
The reason for the break might be that the law-based life form dissipated while maintaining that posture. After it dissipated, its lingering consciousness was captured and sealed by the end of the nearest filament of light. The last moment of sealing was the instant it knelt down.
When it knelt down, the direction it faced, after being corrected by the resonance field, was precisely aligned with the location of the primordial chaos.
Su Fan lowered the Pangu Axe from his shoulder, placed the axe blade on the ground, and supported himself with both hands on the top of the axe handle.
The purple-gold aura of the seed of law deep within the crack cast a faint shadow on the white rock layer at his feet.
The light and shadow slowly rise and fall in rhythm with the pulsation of the seeds, with an extremely stable and uniform amplitude.
"Can those echoes communicate with this primordial world through the resonance field?"
"cannot."
Xu shook his head.
"Echoes are one-way sealed records, not two-way communication interfaces for laws."
They were merely the last frame of behavior left behind by the law-based life forms that once existed within the old domain as they dissipated. Once captured by the ends of the light filaments, the images were completely separated from the main consciousness.
They do not respond, do not speak, and do not recognize external signals of law.
They simply remained there, quietly sealed away, silently waiting for the moment when the laws of the resonance field passed by, reactivating the last frame of the image before returning to silence.
"But those images showed us what once existed in the old realm," Su Fan said.
"There once existed beings governed by laws."
Eros closed his palm, and the transparent law patterns on his fingertips gradually extinguished.
"The old domain is not empty."
The laws of the old domain are not isolated.
Each of the law nodes connected to the ends of the 3,789 light filaments surrounding it could be the final coordinates of a law-based life form that once lived, moved, stood, reached out, squatted, or knelt within the old domain.
Those life forms and the life forms governed by the primordial laws do not share the same origin, the same system, or the same evolutionary path.
But they will reach out, stand up, curl up, and kneel down.
They are separated from the primordial world by an extremely vast distance, an extremely thick membrane of laws, and a completely different structure of laws, yet the things they do bear a striking resemblance to what primordial law-based life forms experience.
Su Fan did not respond.
He pulled the Pangu Axe from the ground, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and turned to walk towards the South Heavenly Gate.
After taking a few steps, he stopped and looked back at the purple-gold aura of the seed of law deep in the crack.
"Can the lingering echoes from the old domain send law signals back to the old domain through the resonance field?"
Eros and Ruins exchanged a glance.
"Theoretically, yes."
Eros said.
"The resonance field is bidirectional."
The law fluctuations released from the primordial end can be received by the seed and translated into the law frequency of the old domain, which is then transmitted to the core of the old domain and distributed to various nodes through 3,789 light filaments.
When the law structure inside the node receives an external law signal, it will generate an extremely weak law response, which will be transmitted back to the core along the light filament.
But those echoes are archived data; they don't respond proactively.
Only the very origin of the laws of the old domain can respond.
"Then send a signal to the origin of the laws of the old domain."
Su Fan moved the Pangu Axe to his other shoulder.
"The origin of the laws of the old domain sent us the first sensory pulse, the content of which was 'Primordial World, can you hear me?'"
We have now formed a resonance field, and the old domain should also be able to sense the law fluctuations of the primordial world through the resonance field.
But sensing and proactive communication are different.
Proactive communication requires sending a signal first, letting the origin of the old domain's laws know that not only are law fluctuations automatically transmitted from the primordial world, but a specific consciousness is also choosing to actively release a signal.
Eros was silent for a moment. "What kind of content do you want to send to the Old Realm?"
Su Fan lowered his head and looked at the panoramic view of the purple-gold resonance field on the surface of the shattered mirror.
The panoramic view clearly marks the boundaries of the primordial continent on all four sides, with the golden patterns of the Southern Heavenly Gate being the brightest and most stable in the center of the mirror.
He reached out and tapped the mirror, his fingertip landing on the core of the resonance field—a location that corresponded to the spatial coordinates of the law seed deep within the Ruins of Return.
Send a picture.
Su Fan said.
The content is a panoramic shot of the primordial law life form standing upright for the first time after the resonance field was formed.
When Pangu struck the core of the old domain three times, he left three sentences, one of which was, "Life forms under the laws of the primordial world will begin to breathe autonomously for the first time."
Autonomous breathing is complete, the seeds of the law are sealed, and the resonance field is formed.
Now, for the first time since the entire system was formed, the Primordial Law Life Form has stood upright.
Capture this scene and transmit it through the resonance field so that the origin of the old domain's laws can see it.
Eros raised his hand.
With all ten transparent law patterns on his hands activated, dark purple law beams converged in front of Su Fan into a palm-sized law viewfinder.
The viewfinder was aimed at the direction of the South Heavenly Gate—the golden patterns on the city wall shone with a very steady light in the golden light of Mars, the outlines of the soldiers on duty on the top of the city wall were very clear in the light, and at the entrance of the weapons shop at the foot of the city wall, A Dou was squatting on the threshold eating a steamed bun, and the bluestone slab at the alley entrance was covered with very faint white dust after the aftershocks of the calamity had disappeared.
"The shot is ready."
Eros said.
"The viewfinder contains a panoramic view of the front of the upper half of the Nantianmen city wall."
After the law fluctuation information in the image is compressed and translated by the heterogeneous law perception array, it can be transmitted to the core of the old domain without loss through the resonance field.
After being teleported, the source of the Old Domain Laws will receive all the law data inside the screen. The precision of the data is enough for the source of the Old Domain Laws to see every detail of the golden patterns on the city wall and the lingering law of every breeze and airflow brought up by the soldiers' footsteps.
However, the transmission takes time.
The path the image travels through is the resonant field channel, not the previous silver-gray physical channel.
The resonant field channel transmits much faster than the physical channel, but the receiving mechanism in the old domain needs time to decode and restore the image.
It is estimated that from the start of the teleportation to the successful decoding of the old domain's original laws, it will take approximately half an hour.
"Send it," Su Fan said.
Eros clasped his hands together.
The viewfinder formed by the dark purple law beam rapidly compressed into a purple-gold law light spot the size of a grain of rice in the palm of the hand, the surface of which was sealed with complete law image data of the South Heavenly Gate City Wall.
He extended his left hand, fingers spread, and the light of law in his palm slowly drifted towards the seed of law deep within the Ruins of Return, guided by the resonance field.
The moment the light touched the purple-gold halo on the seed's surface, it merged into it, and after merging, the seed's pulsating rhythm paused slightly.
It paused for less than half a breath before returning to its original speed, and after it recovered, the purple-gold halo on the surface of the seed was slightly brighter than before.
"Transmission complete."
Eros lowered his hand.
"The image data has entered the law translation unit inside the seed."
The translation unit converts the image data of the Primordial Law frequency into equivalent data of the Old Domain Law frequency, and after the conversion is completed, it is transmitted to the core of the Old Domain through the resonance field channel.
Half an hour later, the origin of the old domain's laws will receive the complete picture.
Su Fan planted the Pangu Axe on the ground and squatted at the edge of the crack, waiting.
Xu squatted down beside him and put his right hand back into his chest, his heart network continuously receiving the real-time status of data transmission within the resonance field channel.
Eros stood behind the two, his hands continuously activating ten transparent law patterns, and the frequency law perception array emitted a very low and continuous hum within its core.
Time passed slowly in the pulsating rhythm of the seeds.
Half an hour later, Xu withdrew his right hand from his chest. The purple-gold diagram on his palm showed that the dark purple halo on the surface of the old domain core trembled very briefly after receiving the image data.
After the tremor subsided and calm returned, the golden debris deposited in the three axe-back depressions on the core surface became slightly brighter than before.
"The footage has been received."
Ruins say.
"After the original laws of the old domain were decoded, no corresponding law signals were released."
It merely absorbed the image data. After absorption, the flow rate of the light halo on the core surface was adjusted by one level. After the adjustment, the synchronized pulsation rhythm of the 3,789 light filaments within the entire old domain slightly accelerated.
"What does it mean that it accelerated a little?" Su Fan asked.
"This means that the emotional state of the original laws of the old domain changed after receiving the image."
Xu turned his palm over to look at the subtle changes in the data on the graph.
"The original laws of the old domain are not devoid of emotion."
It is merely a way of expressing emotions, not the language and expressions of primordial beings governed by the laws of nature; it is a fine-tuning of the rhythm of the laws' operation.
The simultaneous occurrence of these two changes—adjustment of the flow velocity of the halo on the core surface and acceleration of the synchronous pulsation rhythm of the light filaments—indicates that the origin of the laws of the old domain experienced a very faint excitement of law after seeing the scene of the South Heavenly Gate city wall.
The intensity of the excitement is so low that it cannot be detected without continuous monitoring through the resonant field, but it does exist.
The original laws of the old domain responded positively to the images of laws transmitted from the primordial world.
Eros walked to the edge of the crack and squatted down, looking at the purple-gold halo on the seed's surface that was brighter than before.
The act of sending a video is itself a form of communication.
The original laws of the old domain transmit content via sensory pulses, and what we transmit back via images is also content.
The forms of content may differ, but the essence remains the same.
Both sides are trying to show the other their true colors.
Su Fan stood up and slung the Pangu Axe back over his shoulder. "Then let's continue the transmission."
In the days that followed, Eros filmed a video every day showing the daily operation of the primordial laws of life forms and transmitted it to the Old Realm through the resonance field.
The first day's footage shows a panoramic view of the Nantianmen city wall.
The scene on the second day showed the silver-gray channel patterns of the white rock layer of the Guixu foundation shimmering with a purple-gold fluorescence under the light.
The scene on the third day shows A Dou squatting on the threshold of the weapons shop, sharpening a small axe. The gray-white and purple-gold threads on the axe blade create extremely fine sparks as they rub back and forth on the whetstone.
The scene on the fourth day shows Xu squatting on the edge of the crevice, scanning the fatigue of the heart's pulse network, his right hand inserted into his chest cavity, the purple-gold fine lines on the outside of his ribs rising and falling with the rhythm of the seed's pulsation.
On the fifth day, Eros stood on the edge of the White Rock Plateau, all ten transparent law patterns on his hands activated, and dark purple law beams gathered in his palms into a ball of light before dispersing.
After each day's footage was transmitted, Xu's palm skin received subtle feedback on the flow rate of the halo and the synchronous pulsation rhythm of the light filaments on the surface of the Old Domain Core at the same time.
The changes in feedback were extremely subtle but persistent—after continuously receiving scenes of the primordial world, the core operating rhythm of the Old Domain Laws changed from being extremely stable at the beginning to being extremely stable with a very slight elasticity.
The range of elasticity is extremely small, so small that it is not noticeable unless you look at it for five consecutive days. But the elasticity does exist, as if the origin of the old domain's laws is gradually learning to receive external information in a gentler manner.
On the evening of the sixth day, Su Fan squatted on the South Heavenly Gate city wall, with the broken mirror lying flat on his knees, looking at the panoramic view of the purple-gold resonance field on the mirror surface.
A thin layer of light shone along the boundary of the primordial continent in the panoramic view, the color of which was exactly the same as the dark purple of the surface of the old domain's core.
"The origin of the laws of the old domain sent back a signal early this morning."
The sound of the Void came from the direction of the Void Rift and was accurately transmitted to Su Fan's ears through the channel of the Law Resonance Field.
Su Fan put away the broken mirror, stood up, and walked towards the crack.
When he arrived at the White Rock Plateau, Xu stood at the edge of the crack, his right hand pulled out from his chest and spread out. The purple-gold diagram in his palm showed an extremely fine law ripple slowly spreading outward from the surface of the old domain's core.
"The content of the signal is a pattern of rules."
Ruins say.
"The origin of the laws of the old domain used the node data at the ends of 378 light filaments to synthesize a wide-angle law image of the void inside the old domain. The image covers an extremely wide area and can clearly see the distribution pattern of law membrane fragments floating at a great distance around the core."
When the image was transmitted, the shattered mirror automatically received and analyzed it. After analysis, it was shown that the number of law membrane fragments deep within the void of the old domain was far greater than what we had seen in the sensory pulse images before.
Most of those fragments were extremely thin and small, floating in the void far outside the core, with faint traces of laws remaining on the surface of each fragment.
The patterns did not originate from the laws of the old domain themselves; they were the final traces of the actions of those extinct law-based life forms, etched onto the surface of nearby membrane fragments before their dissipation.
Su Fan took the broken mirror out of his waist.
Sure enough, a panoramic view of the ancient domain appeared on the mirror. The background was extremely dark void black, and the dark purple halo in the center was the core of the ancient domain's laws. Around the core, there were countless fragments of law membrane light points. The number of light points was so great that several fine lines of law remnants overflowed when the mirror was analyzed.
He magnified the outermost fragment, whose surface was engraved with a very shallow and fine line, the shape of which was the outline of a slightly curled finger.
"Before they dissipated, they etched their final actions onto the fragments using patterns of laws."
Su Fan's voice was extremely soft.
"The way it was engraved was not a natural sealing of the remnants of the law consciousness, but rather an active engraving by the conscious subject under conscious circumstances."
Knowing they were about to dissipate, they etched their last remaining actions onto nearby fragments of the membrane before vanishing.
The fragments scattered deep within the void of the old domain each bear a law-based pattern on their surface. The pattern depicts the last action performed by the law-based life form before its dissipation.
"The origin of the laws of the Old Domain transmitted this wide-angle image, actively showcasing the entirety of the Old Domain's interior to the primordial world."
Eros walked over to Sufan's side.
"It doesn't just respond to our images; it actively adds details."
The patterns of laws on those fragments had never been detected by any sensory pulses before, because the fragments were too far away and too scattered, and the pulses weakened as they traveled through the void, making it impossible to distinguish the fine patterns on the surface of the fragments.
However, now that the resonance field has been formed, a very weak law resonance has been generated between the residual consciousness sealed at the end node of the light filament and the law patterns on the surface of the fragment. The resonance allows the pattern information of the fragment to be transmitted back to the core through the light filament. The core then uses the resonance field to synthesize the distribution pattern and pattern details of all the fragments into a complete law picture and transmits it over.
It synchronizes the last traces of all extinct life forms within the old domain to the primordial world.
Su Fan raised the shattered mirror a little higher.
Each of the scattered fragments of light on the screen was slowly rotating, with different rhythms, like countless tiny law clocks floating in the void inside the old domain, with the hands of each clock stopping at the position of its owner's last moment before disappearing.
Some fragments are engraved with an outstretched hand, some with a clenched fist, some with a slightly tilted head, and some with a lowered gaze.
On the farthest fragment, there was an extremely simple law pattern engraved on it—a horizontal straight line with a tiny upward curve at the end, so small that it was almost imperceptible without careful observation.
"What does that arc mean?" Su Fan asked.
Xu stared at the synchronization data of the furthest fragment on the palm chart for a long time. "That arc is a smile."
Su Fan took the shattered mirror away from his eyes and remained silent for a long time.
"In this wide-angle view transmitted from the origin of the laws of the old domain, what is sealed is not only the physical structure inside the old domain, but also the last moments of all the law-based life forms that once lived inside the old domain."
The fragments were distributed over a very wide area, scattered throughout the void far around the core. The number of fragments was roughly estimated to be at least 13,000.
More than 13,000 law-based life forms have lived, moved, reached out, stood, curled up, knelt down, and smiled in different eras and locations within the Old Domain.
After they dissipated, they engraved the last thing they left in this world onto the fragments of the membrane.
The fragments drifted in the depths of the void for countless eons, never being triggered by any external law signal.
Now that the resonance field has been formed, the original source of the old domain's laws has actively synthesized all the fragmented information into a picture and transmitted it over.
What was transmitted was not just data, but all the postures left behind by countless lives before their demise.
Eros activated all the transparent law patterns on his hands.
The dark purple beam of light gathered in his palm for a very long time. When the beam became so dense that it almost solidified, he released his hand, and the beam of light drifted toward the seed of law deep within the rift in the Ruins of Return.
After absorbing the beam of light, the seed's pulsation rhythm adjusted slightly. After the adjustment, the smiling arc pattern from the furthest fragment appeared on the seed's purple-gold halo.
The projection was extremely faint and brief, disappearing from the seed's surface in less than three breaths.
Before it dissipated, Su Fan stared at it for a long time.
"What did you put in the seeds?" Su Fan asked.
"The smiling arc in that old wide-angle image was extracted and sealed into the law translation unit inside the seed."
The translation unit translated it into a law expression form that the primordial law environment could recognize. After the translation was completed, it stayed on the seed surface for three breaths and then merged into the seed's internal structure.
From this day forward, the information about the laws governing that wisp of a smile will be permanently sealed within the seed, alongside the law memories of the primordial law-based life form.
Su Fan tucked the broken mirror back into his waistband, stood up, walked to the edge of the crack, and squatted down.
The distance between his fingers and the seed surface was so close that he could feel the extremely slow and stable temperature fluctuations emanating from the purple-gold halo on the seed surface.
Occasionally, between the pulsations, a faint echo of the ancient domain's laws would emerge, and within that echo were the outlines of countless fragments of laws from that wide-angle view.
"The original laws of the old domain are learning from us."
Su Fan withdrew his hand.
"After seeing the images of the Nantianmen city wall that we sent it, it learned to respond with images."
It synthesized the last traces of those extinct life forms within the Old Domain into a wide-angle image and transmitted it over. The purpose wasn't data exchange, but to let the Primordial World know that over ten thousand hands had once stretched out in all directions within the Old Domain, over ten thousand foreheads had once knelt on the void ground, and a Law-based life form, whose lifespan was unknown, had carved a smiling arc before dissipating.
"It's also introducing itself."
Eros said.
"For the first time, the origin of the laws of the Old Domain actively revealed the entirety of the Old Domain to the Primordial World. The method of demonstration was not through verbal explanation, but through the real traces left by the life forms of the laws, proving that the Old Domain was not empty."
Su Fan stood up and hoisted the Pangu Axe back onto his shoulder. "Then let's continue with the introductions."
It sends a wide-angle view, and we respond with a more detailed view of everyday life in the primordial world.
It was passed on day after day, and watched day after day.
Once both sides have a clear understanding of what the other's internal workings look like, communication will no longer require visuals.
"When do we not need visuals?" Xu asked.
"The day will come when the original source of the old domain's laws releases its law signals again, and instead of using perception pulses or law images, it directly uses the resonance field's own law resonance to transmit the content."
The content transmitted by the resonance field itself does not need to be compressed into an image, then decoded and restored; the resonance field itself is the content.
Once the pulsating rhythm of the old domain core and the pulsating rhythm of the seed are completely synchronized, any change in the laws within one side will simultaneously produce a very weak mirror resonance in the law environment of the other side.
The content of mirror resonance can be perceived directly without any translation or decoding.
At that time, the way the two sides communicate will no longer be by looking at images, but by feeling what is happening inside each other's bodies.
Eros remained silent for a moment.
That level of resonance with the laws still needs time.
Although the resonance field has now been formed and stabilized, the rhythm synchronization between the old domain core and the primordial seed is still not deep enough.
Of the 3,789 optical filaments, only about one-third can currently achieve complete synchronous pulsation, while the remaining two-thirds are still gradually adjusting their operating frequency.
Mirror resonance will only occur after all the filaments have completed frequency adjustment and the seeds are fully synchronized.
Based on the current rate of filament adjustment, it is estimated that it will take approximately sixty days.
"Sixty days."
Su Fan placed the Pangu Axe at his feet.
"Sixty days later, communication between the Old Domain and the Primordial World will become direct sensing."
At that time, there will be no need to transmit images, send signals, or perform any intermediate format translation.
My heart skipped a beat here, and my heart skipped a beat there too.
If the light filament flow rate is slightly slower over there, the synchronization speed will be slightly slower over here as well.
The two sides will become two pulsating organs of the same life form, separated by a membrane and a vast void, yet their pulse will be the same.
Eros nodded.
"Sixty days later, the bridge between the Primordial World and the Old Realm will no longer be a passage or a resonance field."
The bridge itself will become an extension organ of the law-based life form.
At that time, every breath of the primordial laws-based life forms will be perceived by the Old Domain, and every adjustment in the flow rate of the halo at the core of the Old Domain will be perceived by the Primordial World.
The two sides are no longer communicating through an intervening barrier; they are already in a state of seamless connection.
Su Fan pulled the Pangu Axe from beside his feet, hoisted it onto his shoulder, and turned to walk towards the South Heavenly Gate.
After taking a few steps, he stopped and looked back at the seed of law deep within the Guixu rift.
The seed's purple-gold halo shone brightly and steadily in the golden light of Mars at dusk, and its pulsating rhythm, after such a long period of cross-domain interaction, had changed from an unfamiliar frequency to a complete replica of Su Fan's heartbeat.
He continued walking towards the South Heavenly Gate.
A Dou was eating his dinner bun at the foot of the city wall when he saw him coming. He put the bun in his mouth and mumbled a call.
Su Fan nodded to him and continued walking up to the top of the city wall.
He walked to the crenellation where he usually squatted to eat breakfast, put down the Pangu Axe, sat on the city brick, and placed the broken mirror on his lap to look at the wide-angle image of the old domain.
In the image, more than 13,000 fragments of the law membrane are still slowly rotating.
Some fragments have hands carved in different directions, some have curled-up postures as quiet as if they are asleep, and the smiling arc on the farthest fragment gleams with a very faint purplish-gold in the dim light of the remnants of the shattered mirror law.
Su Fan reached out and gently touched the smiling curve on the mirror surface.
When the fingertips touched the mirror, the pulsating rhythm of the seed of law deep in the crack increased slightly—not erratically, but like a heartbeat that suddenly skipped a beat.
The extra jump was transmitted to the old domain, and the light thread among the three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine light threads that connected to the farthest fragment pulsed once more in sync.
After that one pulsation, the smiling arc-shaped law pattern on the surface of the furthest fragment flashed briefly in the void within the old domain.
It lit up for less than a moment before dimming back down, but after it dimmed, the depth of the patterns increased slightly.
Su Fan put away the broken mirror and leaned against the city bricks by the crenellations, watching the golden light of Mars slowly sink.
The purple-gold light membrane on the Nantianmen city wall shimmered with an extremely thin layer of light in the evening breeze, and beneath the light membrane, the laws flowing within the golden patterns of the city wall continued to circulate slowly.
The pulsating sound of the seed of law deep within the Guixu rift reached his ears from an immense distance, each sound overlapping with the heartbeat in his own chest.
After the overlap, he couldn't distinguish which was his own heartbeat and which was the seed's throbbing, nor could he distinguish which was the mirror resonance that the three thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine light filaments from the old domain were synchronously following.
All the beats together sound like a very stable and thick layer of background noise, which keeps running.
The primordial world breathes together with the old realm.