111: Chapter 111 Stability

After the Primal Essence from the depths of the Dark Domain merged into his Dantian, Shen Ye's Level 1 God Realm stabilized on Lake Heart Island at Wanxiang University for a full ten days.

During these ten days, he conducted a final round of cross-comparison between the complete Law map of the Void Royal Family Bloodline preserved in the essence and the Seal repair circuits, confirming that the diffusion network of the Twisted Law had been cut off at the root.

Data from various frontline camps confirmed this—the Law pulses of the Crown Prince's remnants had sharply decayed by more than half after the essence was taken, and the remaining forces were pinned down by the joint defense line of Cang Ming and Qin Youyou in the ash residue zone on the periphery of the Dark Domain, unable to penetrate further into the Empire's core area.

But in the early hours of the eleventh day, an urgent message from Gu Qinghan broke the calm.

Her Ice Domain had captured a brand-new Law fluctuation in the deeper parts of the Dark Domain—it was not the pulse of the Crown Prince's remnants, not the heartbeat of the Ancestor of the Abyss, nor the resonance of the Primal Essence.

This fluctuation was extremely weak, so weak that all previous detection equipment had misidentified it as background noise, but its frequency was extremely stable—so stable that it did not seem to be naturally occurring.

After Gu Qinghan used her Ice Domain to filter out the background noise thousands of times, she confirmed that the encoding structure of this fluctuation presented a highly orderly arrangement pattern—it was continuously sending the same segment of Law pulses, never-ending and never repeating, just like an unceasing distress beacon.

Cang Ming's frontline camp observation station subsequently confirmed: the source of this fluctuation was not on the surface layer of the Dark Domain, but in a Law cavity deeper within.

Unlike all previous Void Race ruins, its energy signature was neither Shiyuan Law nor Twilight Energy; it was a brand-new, never-before-recorded form of Law.

Cang Ming compared the observation data with all the ancient archives in the Core Heritage Hall of Eternal University, but could not find any matches.

Even more suspicious was that the frequency of this fluctuation was decaying day by day. Based on the current rate of decay, if it were a distress signal, it would have been transmitting for an extremely long time, and the signal's remaining lifespan was only a few short days.

"If this code cannot be deciphered within a few days, the signal source will go completely silent. The fact that it has existed near the Seal of the Ancestor of the Abyss for so long suggests that it either comes from an ancient power from the same era as the Twilight Ancestors, or it is the last thing left behind by the Ancestor of the Abyss himself before his fall."

When Gu Qinghan sent the final set of detection data to Shen Ye, she was silent for a few seconds on the encrypted channel. "I have been doing tactical analysis at the border for so long, and I have never seen such an energy signature. It is not a threat; it is calling for help."

Shen Ye forwarded the message to Jiang Yue and Lin Tianyin.

Jiang Yue raised her head from the piles of old papers in the Ancient Books Library, the afterimage of twilight script still reflected on her glasses. She performed an initial cross-comparison between the encoding structure of the fluctuation and the inscriptions on the steles in the Twilight Palace, discovering that the Law language structures of the two were highly similar, but the underlying grammar of the encoding was completely different—just like the same script used to write different content in different eras.

Lin Tianyin used her Eye of Law to dismantle the energy frequency of the fluctuation layer by layer. She discovered that this energy did not belong to any currently known Law system, but it had an extremely subtle correspondence with the resonance frequency of the Twilight Apostle, with an error margin within a few ten-thousandths.

This meant that the ancient entity emitting the signal possessed Law technology on the same level as the Twilight Ancestors, but its energy source was neither Holy Light nor the Abyss; it was a type of Fusion energy that possessed the characteristics of both—and its resonance frequency was almost exactly the same as the Twilight Apostle's Law.

Shen Ye summoned everyone overnight.

Tie Chui temporarily handed over the portable beacon production line to Little One and Qing Ye. Gu Changfeng rushed back to Wanxiang University from the frontline camp; the final round of Law resonance calibration for his wind-thunder twin spears had just been completed, and he remarked that his spears were still missing a whetstone.

Yan Shan and Hou Tu had just come out of the Body Refining Cave; the Rock Pattern on his right arm had not yet faded from its hardened state, and the frequency of the distress signal, which had been repeatedly filtered by Gu Qinghan, was emitting a very faint vibration from the Law nodes on the obsidian slab.

He said that no matter what the signal source was, such a stable encoding structure should not be left to die in the depths of the Dark Domain.

Bai Ye arrived from Shenyu University and performed a deep matching of the Bai family's ancient star map with the coordinates of the signal source.

The star map marked a tiny Law cavity deep in the Dark Domain that had never been detected by any means; its volume was far smaller than the cavity sealing the Ancestor of the Abyss, but its Law density was extremely high.

He stood before the star map for a long time before speaking: "If this is truly a distress signal, the fact that it has survived for so many years under the nose of the Ancestor of the Abyss without being contaminated by the Twisted Law suggests that the person emitting the signal is either stronger than the Ancestor of the Abyss, or the Ancestor of the Abyss himself hid it there. In either case, the answer will be revealed within these few days."

As the airship lifted off from Wanxiang University, Shen Ye leaned against the porthole, and Gu Yan's broken sword felt slightly warm in the interlayer of his backpack.

The heart deep within his Dantian beat powerfully, each pulsation echoing the flowing Twilight Light Network at the edge of the sky.

The Law density of his Level 1 God Realm was fully stabilized. Whether this mysterious distress signal was just a precursor to another storm deeper in the Dark Domain, he was not yet sure—but once the signal went completely silent, no one would ever know the answer.