105: Chapter 105 Before Dawn

After returning from the Core Heritage Hall, Shen Ye stayed at Wanxiang University for a few days.

The decryption work for the Crown Prince's backup data proceeded back and forth between Lin Tianyin's laboratory and Jiang Yue's Ancient Archives, with every Law node on the Seal map marked with detailed energy flow and decay cycles.

Bai Ye performed a final deep matching of the Seal pulsation data brought back from the Core Heritage Hall with the Bai family's ancient star map, confirming that the extension speed of the ancient fatigue crack in the southwest corner of the Seal decreased and then increased after the Crown Prince's imitation Seal was stripped away—the ancient Law structure deep inside the crack was still continuously bearing the internal radiation pressure of the Ancestor of the Abyss.

After cross-comparing the backup archives of the Core Heritage Hall, the inscriptions from the Abyss of First Birth altar, and the textual layer of the Seal map word for word, Jiang Yue concluded: When the Twilight Ancestors sealed the Ancestor of the Abyss countless years ago, they had not failed to anticipate that the Seal would develop structural fatigue over the long passage of time.

They had reserved a complete Law repair circuit in the deepest part of the Seal base, but activating this circuit required satisfying one condition—all external interference on the outside of the Seal had to be completely cleared, and an Awakened possessing dual Aptitude for Twilight Energy and the Time Law had to reconnect the repair circuit to the continent's natural Law network.

"The Law language used by this repair circuit is more ancient; it does not rely on the Twilight Ancestors' Seal itself, but rather reconnects the Seal to the entire continent's natural Law network, using the earth's own repair capabilities to bridge the cracks. However, activating it requires two things: Twilight Energy and the Time Law."

Bai Ye performed a final synchronization calibration of the Time Law Array parameters from the Bai family's ancient star map with the energy frequency of the repair circuit, then took out a tiny dark golden chip from the core of the star map.

This chip had been slowly rotating in the center of the star map ever since it was activated in the time anomaly zone of the Core Heritage Hall, "The Bai family's Time Law Array can serve as the starter for the repair circuit, to be injected into the Seal base simultaneously with your Twilight Energy."

Shen Ye took the chip and placed it in the side pocket of his backpack, right next to the Mirror Fire fragments and the Crown Prince's imitation crystal.

A final comprehensive check was needed before departure, because this trip was not for probing or stripping away an imitation Seal, but to truly begin repairing that ancient crack.

News came from the medical station that Gu Changfeng's old injury on his right hand had completely healed after being nurtured in the Twilight Light column for so long, and the wind-thunder twin spears had completed their final round of Law resonance calibration.

Qin Youyou had completed the final deep tempering of the ancient war spear at the Independent Pioneer Sequence's front-line camp, and the tempering data had been updated.

Qin Sese had someone deliver a pot of freshly brewed savage spirits.

In the depths of the Body Refining Cave, Yan Shan finished deducing all the newly added internal structural nodes of the Seal on the obsidian slab, while Hou Tu squatted beside him, palms pressed to the ground, transmitting the vibration frequencies of the Seal base's repair circuit to his father's Sea of Consciousness one by one.

Tie Chui and Qing Ye packed a new batch of Medicinal Pill from the pill room one by one, while Little One checked the labels of each box of supplies with the Spiritual Qi ledger on the side.

On the night before departure, Shen Ye placed that pot of savage spirits by Yan Shan's hand.

Yan Shan unscrewed the lid, took a sip, was silent for a moment, and said that this wine was stronger than the last one.

Shen Ye said it was freshly brewed by Qin Sese, and she said it was a toast to you.

Yan Shan nodded, put the wine pot into the old mining basket he had brought back from the depths of the mineral vein in the corner of the Body Refining Cave, and placed it next to the obsidian slab Hou Tu had used when he first helped him mark the Seal nodes.

Outside the window, the four-tower light pillars rotated slowly in the night, and he leaned against the stone wall of the Body Refining Cave and closed his eyes, the Rock Pattern on his right arm flickering faintly in the afterglow of the Twilight Light column.

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

The four-tower light pillars of Lake Heart Island rotated slowly outside the porthole, gradually shrinking into four pale golden threads, and were eventually swallowed by the clouds.

Qin Shu pushed the engine to the limit, and the flying boat sped toward the Core Heritage Hall with a pale blue exhaust flame.

Shen Ye leaned against the porthole, placing his backpack on his lap.

Before leaving, he had organized his equipment one last time in the dormitory—Gu Yan's broken sword, wrapped in Spiritual Qi silk, was placed in the side pocket of the backpack next to the Crown Prince's imitation crystal, the two Mirror Fire fragments, and Bai Ye's dark golden chip.

The activation inscriptions for the Seal repair circuit deciphered by Jiang Yue, the Seal structural Law map analyzed by Lin Tianyin, and the underground Spiritual Qi flow coordinates marked by Hou Tu were all encrypted and stored in the detector.

The heart deep within his Dantian beat powerfully, pumping Twilight Energy into his limbs and bones with every pulse.

His Level 2 God Realm had been fully consolidated, but facing the Ancestor of the Abyss in the deepest part of the Seal, the Law density of a Level 2 God was still insufficient.

Bai Ye sat opposite him, performing a final synchronization calibration of the Bai family's ancient star map with the repair circuit.

Qin Youyou laid the ancient war spear across her lap, the bone blade fragments remaining on the spear tip completely covered by newly generated Twilight patterns.

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

Yan Shan's rough fingers slowly traced along the node patterns of the repair circuit, while Hou Tu squatted beside him, perceiving the vibrations of the Law patterns on the slab with his palms pressed against it, occasionally looking up to tell his father the vibration frequency of a certain node.

The flying boat pierced through the eternal dark red sky of the core area and landed outside the meteorite iron mine.

Shen Ye was the first to walk down the gangway, followed closely by Bai Ye, Qin Youyou, Yan Shan, and Hou Tu.

The twilight script on the rock walls on both sides of the spiral stone stairs was still glowing faintly, the burnt smell in the air was thicker than when they last came, and the heartbeat coming from deep within the Seal was also heavier.

The Ancestor of the Abyss sensed the changes on the outside of the Seal—after the Crown Prince's imitation Seal was stripped away, that ancient heart bore greater internal pressure, and every pulsation made the dark golden Law patterns on the surface of the Seal tremble slightly.

Shen Ye walked to the ancient fatigue crack in the southwest corner of the Seal.

The Twilight mark left last time was still glowing faintly, and the Law membrane at the deepest part of the crack was temporarily intact, but a few more extremely fine new cracks had appeared on the surface Law patterns under the internal pressure of the Ancestor of the Abyss.

He pressed his hand against the edge of the crack, and the pulse of the Heart of Twilight deep within his Dantian was perfectly synchronized with the Law frequency of the Seal itself.

Bai Ye unfolded the Bai family's ancient star map, the Time Law Array rotating slowly directly below the Seal base, and the dark golden chip at the center of the star map completed its final automatic calibration with the energy frequency of the repair circuit.

Yan Shan walked to directly below the Seal base, and the Rock Pattern on his right arm automatically hardened under the pulse of the Heart of Twilight—the activation of the repair circuit did not require brute force to break open the Seal, but rather injecting Bai Ye's Time Law Array and Shen Ye's Twilight Energy into the energy nodes of the repair circuit simultaneously, activating it with an extremely light and gentle force.

Shen Ye condensed the twilight longsword in his hand, embedded Bai Ye's dark golden chip into the hilt, and pressed the tip of the sword against the energy node of the repair circuit.

Twilight Energy and the Time Law intertwined on the sword into a golden-purple spiral light, penetrating inch by inch along the Law patterns of the repair circuit.

Deep within the Seal base, that Law repair circuit that had slept for countless years slowly lit up under the joint injection of the two energies.

All the dark golden Law patterns on the surface of the Seal resonated simultaneously, and the layer of Law membrane at the deepest part of the crack began to heal slowly under the traction of the repair circuit.

Deep within the Seal, the heartbeat of the Ancestor of the Abyss suddenly intensified—it sensed that the Seal was repairing itself.

But the repair circuit had already been activated, and the entire continent's natural Law network was reconnecting with the Seal through this circuit.

The ancient fatigue crack spanning the inner layer in the southwest corner of the Seal began to bridge slowly, layer by layer, starting from the Law membrane at the deepest point.

This was not a process that could be completed in a day, but the first cornerstone had already been laid.

Shen Ye withdrew his longsword and pressed his hand against the surface of the Seal.

The pulse of the Heart of Twilight and the Law frequency of the Seal were perfectly synchronized at this moment, and the repair circuit briefly connected his perception with the Ancestor of the Abyss deep within the Seal.

He perceived that ancient heart—it was still beating, still radiating distorted Laws outward, but as the repair circuit reconnected to the continent's natural Law network, the Law density of the entire Seal was gradually recovering.

One day, when the Seal was completely repaired, he would personally purify it completely.

But not today.

He stood up and turned toward the Twilight mark on the outside of the Seal.

The mark was still glowing faintly, resonating at the same frequency as the repair circuit, and would transmit a signal back to Wanxiang University the first time the Seal showed new instability.

"The repair circuit has been activated, and the Seal crack is slowly healing. This process will take a long time, but we don't need to stay by its side."

He turned to Bai Ye, "The Bai family's Time Law Array has completed synchronization calibration with the repair circuit; from now on, if the Seal shows abnormal fluctuations, the ancient artifact vault on the top floor of the Golden Tower will receive the signal immediately."

Bai Ye nodded.

Qin Youyou lifted the ancient war spear and shouldered it, the spear tip shimmering with a very faint golden luster in the Twilight halo on the surface of the Seal.

Yan Shan slowly faded the hardening of the Rock Pattern on his right arm, and Hou Tu withdrew his palms from the ground.

The father and son stood up together, looking at the golden-purple spiral light that was still slowly rotating deep within the Seal base.

When the flying boat rose into the air again, the eternal dark red sky of the core area was being torn open by a larger crack by the Twilight Light column.

Sunlight poured down from the crack, shining on this scorched earth that had been shrouded in dark red for countless years.

The Crown Prince's Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body plan had completely ended, the first cornerstone of the Seal repair had been laid, and the next step was to continue to increase the Law density of the God Kingdom to accumulate reserves for the impact on the Tier 1 God.

Shen Ye leaned against the porthole, sending the activation data of the repair circuit to Jiang Yue and Lin Tianyin in an encrypted format.

Outside the porthole, the Twilight Light Network was extending in all directions from the direction of the Core Heritage Hall, covering all the land that had once been dyed dark red by the ash Law scorch marks.

The heart deep within his Dantian beat powerfully, every pulse echoing the intersection of the four-tower light pillars at the end of the horizon.

Before the dawn, he had personally lit the first lamp.