108: Chapter 108 Dark Domain

It was still dark when the flying ship took off from Wanxiang University.

Shen Ye leaned against the porthole, checking the equipment in his backpack piece by piece.

Gu Yan's broken sword, wrapped in spiritual silk, lay in the interlayer alongside the Crown Prince's imitation crystal, the two fragments of Mirror Fire, and Bai Ye's Time Law beacon.

The first batch of portable twilight beacon, urgently allocated by Su Wanqing through commercial channels, was packed in a meteorite iron box. The activation slots Tie Chui had made using spiral ore crystal powder were lined up on the inner side of the lid. Each beacon was individually sealed; although their coverage radius after activation was only one-fifth of the fixed version, they had the advantage of being numerous and triggering quickly.

Bai Ye sat opposite him, the miniature Time Law beacon emitting a faint, pure golden light in his palm.

The coordinates for the pitch-black area of the Core Ruins had already been pre-loaded into the beacon. Judging from the latest flight path map updated by Gu Qinghan, the degree of Law turbulence on the periphery of that area far exceeded any previous ruins.

Qin Youyou rested her ancient war spear across her knees, the tip gleaming with a cold luster in the dim light of the cabin.

Yan Shan and Hou Tu sat in the corner of the cargo hold, the obsidian slab engraved with a copy of the Dark Domain Seal structure placed before them.

Hou Tu pressed both palms to the ground, sensing the vibrations of the Law patterns on the slab, and occasionally told his father the vibration frequency of a newly marked node.

Qin Shu pushed the engines to the limit. The flying ship, trailing a pale blue exhaust, pierced through the eternal dark red canopy of the Core Ruins and flew toward the area painted pitch black on all military maps.

The flying ship landed beside the wreckage of an abandoned meteorite iron sentry tower on the periphery of the Dark Domain.

When Shen Ye walked down the gangway, he clearly felt that the Law environment here was completely different from the Core Ruins.

The air was filled with a faint, burnt smell, and the gray-black scorched earth beneath his feet was as hard as iron.

The entire Dark Domain was shrouded in an extremely thick, though not impenetrable, dark purple Law barrier. The surface of the barrier was covered in dense Shiyuan Law patterns, but deep within these patterns, a layer of more ancient Twilight Energy was flowing slowly.

Gu Qinghan's detection point was set at the top of the sentry tower wreckage. She was not there herself—she had remained at a higher vantage point further out to maintain continuous monitoring with her Ice Domain—but the detector she had left behind was still working.

The screen displayed the real-time frequencies of the two Law energy streams deep within the Dark Domain. One was the Law pulse from the Crown Prince's personal Seal, stable and sharp; the other was that mysterious third-party Law energy, which had an extremely low frequency but extremely high stability, and was completely homologous to the Law resonance frequency of the Twilight Apostles when they formed ranks in the Land of Gods and Demons.

After Bai Ye synchronized and calibrated the miniature Time Law beacon with the detector, he discovered that the frequency of this third-party Law energy was completely identical to that layer of ancient Twilight Seal within the Seal repair circuit.

"It is homologous to the energy the Twilight Ancestors left deep within the Seal, but the source direction is completely different—the sleeping existence deep within the Seal is the source of the distortion, while this energy does not have a trace of distortion."

"The Twilight Ancestors left behind more than just one ruin."

Shen Ye condensed the twilight longsword in his hand. Deep within his Dantian, the Heart of Twilight produced a subtle resonance with that extremely low-frequency third-party Law energy.

This energy was quieter and purer than the ancient heart deep within the Seal, like a mirror that had never been broken.

He activated the first portable twilight beacon. The moment the beacon lit up, a higher-grade beacon simultaneously condensed deep within the Land of Gods and Demons—Gain Without Labor triggered.

Under the shroud of the Twilight Light Network, the Shiyuan Law patterns on the surface of the Dark Domain barrier began to fade from the edges, but the fading speed was extremely slow, much slower than all the Abyssal Energy purified previously.

"The Shiyuan Law here is not an imitation by the Crown Prince; it was left personally by the Ancestor of the Abyss countless years ago. Inside the Dark Domain, there is an extremely ancient Seal structure that shares the same frequency as the Twilight Energy, but it is wrapped in layers of Shiyuan Law. We need to use the resonance of the Twilight Apostles to directly lock onto the Seal's location."

He sank his consciousness into the Land of Gods and Demons.

Chen and Ye stood on either side of the Twilight Altar, calling out dozens of Twilight Apostles from the ranks. Their Law resonance frequency perfectly synchronized with that third-party Law energy on the detector, creating a circle of extremely subtle ripples on the surface of the Dark Domain barrier.

The center of the ripples was precisely at an inconspicuous recessed area on the southwest side of the barrier.

Yan Shan walked to the front of the recess, his right arm Rock Pattern automatically hardening under the pulsation of the Heart of Twilight deep within his Dantian.

Hou Tu transmitted the underground Spiritual Qi flow of the Dark Domain Seal structure to his father's Sea of Consciousness one by one. Yan Shan pressed his right fist against the core Shiyuan Law pattern at the recess, slowly infiltrating with an extremely light and gentle force.

After withdrawing his fist, he reported that this Seal structure was different from all the Seals seen before. The inner layer of the Twilight Seal itself was intact, but the outer Shiyuan Law patterns extended directly from the body of the Ancestor of the Abyss, making the difficulty of stripping them away unprecedented.

Shen Ye activated all dozens of portable twilight beacon, laying down a stable Twilight Light Network around the periphery of the Dark Domain barrier.

The Gain Without Labor triggered by the beacon activation continuously poured into the Land of Gods and Demons. Each trigger increased the density of the Twilight Light Network by a fraction, and the Shiyuan Law patterns on the surface of the Dark Domain barrier faded at an extremely slow but steady speed under the suppression of the light network.

After encrypting and sending the resonance data of the first batch of Twilight Apostles to Lin Tianyin and Jiang Yue, he embedded the second batch of beacons into the nodes of the light network one by one.

Every time a beacon lit up, the heart deep within his Dantian would beat in synchronization—the gap in Law density between a Level 2 God and a Tier 1 God was being filled bit by bit.

The third-party Law energy deep within the Dark Domain was still sleeping, but it had already sensed the touch of the Twilight Light Network. The circle of extremely subtle ripples on the surface of the barrier was spreading deeper, ring by ring.

He did not need to purify the entire Dark Domain today—he only needed to continuously activate the beacons to trigger Gain Without Labor, maintain a stable Twilight Light Network on the periphery of the Dark Domain, and let the resonance between the light network and the third-party Law energy gradually penetrate the outer layer of the Devouring Abyss.

Once the barrier faded to be thin enough, he would have the Twilight Apostles' resonance directly lock onto the Seal's location, and Yan Shan would be able to break it open with one punch.

A few days later, all detection data, Seal diagrams, and Law frequencies were summarized at the Wanxiang University Law Analysis Laboratory.

Lin Tianyin compared the Twilight Seal structure of the inner layer of the Dark Domain Seal with the Core Ruins Seal diagram layer by layer, confirming that this Seal had been personally placed by the Ancestor of the Abyss himself before he was sealed by the Twilight Ancestors—countless years ago, during the process of distorting the Primordial Abyss, he had once attempted to use his own power to Seal something.

But he failed. The distortion Law backlashed against him, and this Seal was later covered by his own hand with Shiyuan Law patterns, becoming the outermost barrier of the Dark Domain.

The third-party Law energy was not left by anyone else; it was a cluster of pure Primordial Abyss essence that the Ancestor of the Abyss had personally sealed here before he was completely distorted—it was the last trace of untainted Origin he had possessed as the ancestor of the Void Race.

The Crown Prince had spent his entire life trying to find this cluster of essence, in order to use it to complete the final Fusion of the Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body.

But he possessed neither Twilight Energy nor the Twilight Apostle resonance ability brought by the Eternal Loyalty talent, and he would never be able to penetrate this Seal in his lifetime.

"The value of this essence to you does not lie in the energy itself, but in the fact that it is the only sample that completely retains the Law structure of the Primordial Abyss before it was distorted. You can use it to connect the dual repair circuits of Twilight Energy and the Time Law into the Law network of the Void Royal Family, blocking the spread of the distortion Law from the root of the Bloodline—this is not a stopgap measure to Seal the Ancestor of the Abyss, but the key to ending the spread of the distortion Law."

Lin Tianyin turned the Seal diagram toward Shen Ye.

Shen Ye sank his consciousness into the Land of Gods and Demons. Chen and Ye opened their eyes simultaneously on both sides of the Twilight Altar, and a new batch of Twilight Apostles was born from the altar.

Jin Lin stood before the sword stele with his hand on his sword, the little Dragon on his shoulder lifting its head to let out a clear dragon roar.

Mu Sheng's perception vines covered the edge of the spiritual field, and the white flowers at the ends of hundreds of vines were all in full bloom.

Daoist Quan sat cross-legged by the spiritual spring, the three-spiral merged Cavitation Cloud slowly rotating in his palm.

Yan Shan hardened his right arm Rock Pattern to the limit deep in the Body Refining Cave, and Hou Tu transmitted the underground Spiritual Qi flow of the last few nodes of the inner layer of the Dark Domain Seal to his father's Sea of Consciousness.

Tie Chui finished sealing the latest batch of portable twilight beacon in the alchemy room, while Little One stood by, checking the serial numbers one by one with a spiritual record book.

Su Wanqing's commercial channels pushed the production expansion plan for the portable beacons to all frontline camps.

Qin Youyou's voice came from the communicator: "The spear has been tempered."

Bai Ye's Time Law Array and the resonance frequency of the Twilight Light Network completed the final round of synchronization calibration.

Gu Qinghan updated the flight path map in the encrypted channel.

Shen Ye re-wrapped Gu Yan's broken sword in spiritual silk, and packed the Crown Prince's imitation crystal, the two fragments of Mirror Fire, and Bai Ye's dark gold chip into the interlayer of his backpack one by one.

He zipped up his backpack and pushed open the dormitory door.

The sensor lights in the hallway lit up in sequence, and his footsteps echoed between the stone walls.

Next, he would venture deep into the Dark Domain, retrieve that cluster of Primordial Abyss essence that had been sealed for countless years, and complete the final accumulation of Law density for his breakthrough to a Tier 1 God.

The heart deep within his Dantian beat powerfully, each pulse pumping Twilight Energy into his limbs and bones, echoing from afar with that cluster of pure essence deep within the Dark Domain.

He had been forging this key since the day of his Awakening; now, the time had come to open that door of the Seal.