102: Chapter 102 Consolidation

In the few days after his Breakthrough to Level 2 God, Shen Ye did not set off immediately.

The morning light from Wanxiang Lake filtered in through the window, casting faint golden spots of light onto the desk.

He opened his spiritual power logbook and listed the data on the changes in his Cultivation Divine Kingdom's area, the scale of his kin, and Law density after the Breakthrough—the Cultivation Divine Kingdom had jumped from several million square kilometers to nearly ten million square kilometers, and the total number of kin was steadily growing toward ten million; the Land of Gods and Demons expanded in sync, and the daily production of Twilight Apostle remained stable at several hundred per day.

The Heart of Twilight deep within his Dantian was solid and powerful; every pulsation pumped Twilight Energy into his limbs and bones, perfectly synchronized with the resonant frequency of the four-tower light pillars.

After cross-referencing the reverse-engineered data of the Crown Prince's imitation crystal, the Fusion residue map of the two Mirror Fire locations, and the copies of the Law patterns from the Core Heritage Hall's Seal structure, he compiled a complete consolidation plan for the Level 2 God Realm.

The plan was divided into three parts—the adaptive training of the kin's combat power under the new Law density would be completed by Jin Lin, Mu Sheng, and Daoist Quan, each leading their own teams, with him participating only in the final combined strike drill; the Faith infusion rhythm for the Twilight Altar in the Land of Gods and Demons would be calibrated by Chen and Ye, while he would check the stability of the Law patterns on the altar base every few days; as for Yan Shan, he would continue to practice adaptive strikes using the Seal node map brought back by Hou Tu from the Core Heritage Hall, simulating the pressure of the deeper Seal structure.

He sent out the plan, closed the logbook, and pushed open the dormitory door.

Wanxiang University had been quieter than usual these past few days.

After the National Competition, most of the core students had gone to the front lines for rotation or returned to their provincial stations, leaving mostly researchers and lower-grade students on Lake Heart Island.

Shen Ye walked along the lakeside path; the ginkgo leaves had all fallen, and the bare branches cast sparse shadows in the morning light.

He stopped for a moment under the oldest ginkgo tree, bent down to pick up a withered leaf that had fallen near the roots, tucked it into the front page of his logbook, and then continued walking forward.

In the Law Analysis Laboratory, Lin Tianyin was marking the Law pulse frequency of the Crown Prince's backup data on a hologram.

The Mirror Fire Fusion residue data brought back from the Level 2 God Breakthrough had been broken down by her into hundreds of Law fluctuation curves. After cross-referencing them with the reverse-engineered results of the Crown Prince's imitation crystal, the encryption structure of the backup data had fully surfaced—the core encryption logic was still the Shiyuan Law system, but the Crown Prince had embedded an extremely complex Law encoding into the backup data, and the core key to this encoding was the original frequency of the Mirror Fire.

Those without Twilight Energy could not activate the Mirror Fire, and those without the Mirror Fire could not crack this encoding.

The Crown Prince had used his own method to lock the backup data in a safe that could only be opened by a holder of Twilight Energy.

"The coordinates for the backup data have been locked."

Jiang Yue's voice came through the communicator, filled with irrepressible excitement.

She had been deciphering for many days in the library, and now she finally had results—the cross-comparison between the backup archives of the Core Heritage Hall and the inscriptions on the altar of the Abyss of First Birth was complete. The Crown Prince's backup data was stored deeper within the ruins, at a very deep location directly beneath the altar, completely overlapping with the time anomaly area marked by Bai Ye.

The Seal structure was of the same origin as the altar base of the Twilight Palace, but it was older and located at a deeper level.

"The encryption structure has been analyzed, and the frequency of the Mirror Fire can unlock the key."

Lin Tianyin pushed up her glasses, "The remaining problem is the depth—the location of the Seal is far beyond the range of conventional detection; ordinary Divine Sense cannot reach the bottom at all. Only the ore vein perception coordinates that Hou Tu left behind in the Core Heritage Hall can provide reliable underground Spiritual Qi flow directions."

Shen Ye forwarded the coordinates sent by Jiang Yue and the encryption analysis results from Lin Tianyin to Qin Shu and Gu Qinghan.

Bai Ye's Time Law array had completed synchronous calibration on the top floor of the Golden Tower, and the coverage parameters of the micro Time Law beacon perfectly matched the time anomaly fluctuations in the area where the backup data was located.

Yan Shan was deep in the Body Refining Cave; after receiving the underground Spiritual Qi flow directions for the deeper Seal structure from Hou Tu, the Rock Pattern on his right arm had hardened several times, each time leaving fist marks of varying depths on the obsidian slab.

Hou Tu crouched nearby with both palms pressed against the ground, converting the deeper Seal nodes one by one into vibration frequencies and transmitting them to his father for adaptive strikes.

Qin Youyou had completed the final round of tempering for the ancient war spear at the front-line camp of the Independent Pioneer Sequence.

The message she sent was brief, but the tempering data attached to it showed that the Law density of the spear tip had been perfectly synchronized with the Level 2 God-level Twilight Energy.

After Gu Changfeng's wind-thunder twin spears had been tempered in the Twilight Energy light pillars for many days, the old injury on his right hand had completely healed, and the Wind-Thunder Law resonance tests were all up to standard.

After confirming everything one by one, Shen Ye began to pack his equipment—Gu Yan's broken sword, the Crown Prince's imitation crystal, the fragments of the two Mirror Fires, Bai Ye's Time Law beacon, and Qin Youyou's wine flask. He checked the integrity of the spiritual silk Seals on each item, and after confirming that all Seal patterns were intact, he zipped up his backpack.

Three days before departure, a light rain fell on Wanxiang University.

Raindrops hit the surface of the lake, shattering and then reassembling the reflections of the four-tower light pillars.

Shen Ye stood at the entrance of the library, and Jiang Yue handed him the latest deciphered manuscript of the inscriptions on the Seal deeper within the Core Heritage Hall—after word-for-word cross-comparison with the backup archives of the Core Heritage Hall, this manuscript confirmed the existence of ancient inscriptions at the deepest part of the ruins that were identical to the text on the altar of the Abyss of First Birth.

The content of the inscriptions pointed to the sleeping existence at the deepest part of the Seal—after the Ancestor of the Abyss was sealed by the Twilight Ancestors, it continued to radiate distorted Laws outward, but the Seal itself had never been truly broken.

The time anomaly area where the Crown Prince's backup data was located lay above the Seal; it was a Law fault left behind when he repeatedly probed the Seal structure during his lifetime, not a crack in the Seal itself.

Jiang Yue turned the deciphered manuscript to the last page, where a note had been attached, just analyzed by Lin Tianyin's Eye of Law—after the encryption encoding embedded in the backup data was parsed by the Mirror Fire frequency, its underlying Law structure unexpectedly presented a double-helix nested form that had never appeared in any Devouring Abyss creation or ancient Twilight relic.

This was neither pure Shiyuan Law nor pure Twilight Energy; two diametrically opposed Laws had been forcibly woven together by some unknown power, entangling and restraining each other.

She sent this discovery encrypted to the Wanxiang University Academic Committee, while simultaneously copying it to the deep databases of the four universities to request collaborative retrieval.

Shen Ye carefully tucked this note into the inner compartment of his backpack, placing it together with the Mirror Fire fragments.

In the final days, Su Wanqing's chamber of commerce channels delivered the latest improved spiral purification pill from Tie Chui—the Twilight patterns flowing on the surface of the pill were denser and brighter than before, packaged in a meteorite iron box reinforced with Twilight spiritual power.

Also delivered were Qing Ye's Spirit Plant Guidance Pill and the high-purity Faith Crystal for Yan Shan's exclusive use. Each batch of supplies was packed in sections according to destination and purpose, with labels indicating the supply cycle precise to the hour and the corresponding front-line camp number.

On the night before departure, Shen Ye stood alone by the lake.

After breaking through to Level 2 God, he could perceive the frequency of Law pulsations from further away—the intersection point of the four-tower light pillars, that grey zone above the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist that had been completely dispersed, and the extremely faint pulse of the Seal deep within the Core Heritage Hall.

The heart deep within his Dantian beat powerfully; every pulsation silently merged into the Twilight Light Network reflected on the surface of the lake.

The Level 2 God Realm had been completely consolidated, and the Crown Prince's backup data deeper within the Seal, as well as the sleeping Ancestor of the Abyss, were waiting for him.

He pressed the small amulet on his chest through his clothes, turned around, and walked back to the dormitory to organize his equipment one last time.

It was not yet dawn when the flying boat took off.

The four-tower light pillars of Lake Heart Island rotated slowly outside the porthole, and Shen Ye leaned back in his seat, placing his backpack on his knees.

Bai Ye sat opposite him, the micro Time Law beacon emitting a very faint, pure golden light in his palm, with the coordinates of the time anomaly area deep within the Core Heritage Hall already pre-loaded into the beacon.

Qin Youyou rested the ancient war spear across her knees; the bone blade fragments remaining on the spear tip had been completely covered by the newly born Twilight patterns, and the tempered spear body gleamed with a cold luster in the extremely dim light of the flying boat cabin.

Yan Shan and Hou Tu sat in the corner of the cargo hold, with the obsidian slab engraved with the copy of the deeper Seal structure placed in front of them.

Yan Shan's rough fingers slowly traced the newly marked node patterns, while Hou Tu crouched nearby, palms pressed to the ground, sensing the vibrations of the Law patterns on the slab, occasionally looking up to tell his father the vibration frequency of a certain node.

In the cockpit, Qin Shu zoomed in on the last section of the flight route map marked in red—that was the no-fly zone designated by Gu Qinghan after superimposing the backup data coordinates marked by Jiang Yue with Bai Ye's time anomaly area.

The degree of Law chaos within several tens of kilometers in the deeper part of the Core Heritage Hall was stronger than the last time; the Law fault left by the Crown Prince above the Seal was still interfering with spatial stability, so the flying boat could only stop at the outer perimeter of the ruins, and they would have to enter on foot.

The flying boat pierced through the eternal dark red sky of the core area, flying toward the half-collapsed meteorite iron mine they had left last time.

Shen Ye opened his eyes; outside the porthole, the spiral stone staircase extending downward at the entrance of the ruins was already vaguely visible in the morning light.

The twilight script on the rock walls on both sides was still glowing faintly, exactly the same as when they came last time.

He swung his backpack onto his shoulder, was the first to walk down the gangway, and stepped toward the deeper part of the ruins.