114: Chapter 114 Newly Formed Mineral Veins

The analysis of The Observers database continued for three whole days.

Lin Tianyin connected the deep databases of the four top universities to the Law Analysis Laboratory. The Bai family's ancient star map, the ancient relic data from the high-risk Seal area of Cangqiong University, the Law archives of the Core Heritage Hall of Eternal University, and the ancient documents of Wanxiang University were all online simultaneously. Hundreds of researchers worked in shifts, translating the database index directories into modern Law language one by one.

Shen Ye stayed in the laboratory until late every night, watching the ancient Law patterns from hundreds of millions of years ago light up one by one on the hologram, gradually piecing together from initial strange symbols into a complete Law map.

On the evening of the third day, Lin Tianyin discovered a note that had been marked repeatedly three times in the third major zone—a technology unique to The Observers civilization: Primary Resonance technology.

In the records, The Observers called a special type of Ore vein the "Foundation of Resonance," describing it as "born where the Primary Abyss first made contact with Holy Light, capable of withstanding the extreme Law density generated during the Fusion of light and darkness without shattering."

At the end of the note was a very brief Law fluctuation frequency. Lin Tianyin extracted it separately and cross-referenced it with the Ore vein vibrations that Yan Shan had sensed in the deeper parts of the Dark Domain a while ago.

The two frequencies matched perfectly.

"This is it. The material The Observers used to build the database shell is this type of Ore vein. When you undergo the Breakthrough to True God, the Law density of your divine kingdom will skyrocket by several orders of magnitude from the Peak of a Level 1 God. During this process, you need to apply the Primary Resonance technology directly to the core of your divine kingdom. Ordinary spiral ore crystals cannot withstand such high-density Law resonance, but this Ore vein can."

Lin Tianyin adjusted her glasses and turned the hologram toward Shen Ye. "Its location is deeper in the Dark Domain, deeper than any Law cavity previously detected. The vibration frequency Hou Tu marked at the Body Refining Cave shows that this Ore vein has never been mined; even the Crown Prince did not know of its existence while he was alive. The Observers only took a small piece to forge the database shell, and the rest remains untouched."

Shen Ye forwarded the Ore vein coordinates to Yan Shan.

Yan Shan had just come out of the Body Refining Cave, and the Rock Pattern on his right arm had not yet faded from its hardened state.

For several consecutive days, he had been using the True God-level pressure nodes marked by Hou Tu for adaptive punching. The surface of the Rock Pattern had developed several extremely fine fatigue cracks, but the force of his punches grew heavier each time.

He took the coordinates, glanced at them, and told Hou Tu to measure the vibration frequency of the Ore vein again.

Hou Tu crouched down, pressed his palms against the ground, and after a moment, looked up and said the Ore vein was alive—it was breathing extremely slowly. When inhaling, its vibration frequency was perfectly synchronized with the pulsation of the heart deep within his Dantian, and when exhaling, its vibration frequency was identical to the original frequency of The Observers database Law pulse.

This type of Ore vein was not ordinary Ore at all; it was a Law crystal that grew naturally in the high-temperature and high-pressure environment where the two Laws collided when the Primary Abyss first made contact with Holy Light. Every piece contained a trace amount of Primary Resonance energy.

"I need it to temper my Rock Pattern. I have withstood the True God-level pressure nodes, but the fatigue cracks on the surface of the Rock Pattern require higher-density Law Materials to repair. The hardness of this Ore vein is higher than the Ash King's bone blade. If it can be smelted into the Rock Pattern, the next punch will be able to smash through a True God-level Seal structure," Yan Shan said.

On the eve of departure, Shen Ye called Tie Chui out of the Mobile Pill Room.

He handed the complete Law map regarding the Foundation of Resonance from The Observers database to Tie Chui, saying that this Ore vein could not only be used to build a Law resonance platform for the Breakthrough to True God, but could also raise the activation efficiency of the portable twilight beacon to a new magnitude—because the Ore vein itself contained Primary Resonance energy. Using it to forge the beacon shell would allow each beacon to automatically release an extremely faint Primary Resonance fluctuation upon activation, significantly increasing the reduction speed of Shiyuan Law within its coverage area.

Tie Chui looked over the map repeatedly and then asked a very practical question: "How deep is the Ore vein? Can my Mobile Pill Room reach it at its maximum diving depth?"

"It cannot. You need to bring the portable forging furnace and come down with me. The Ore vein is deeper in the Dark Domain, at a depth far exceeding any Law cavity previously detected. The flying ship cannot enter; we must go on foot."

Tie Chui was silent for a moment, then said he had never forged iron in a mine in his entire life, so he might as well try it.

Early the next morning, the flying ship took off from Wanxiang University.

Shen Ye leaned against the porthole and checked the equipment piece by piece.

Gu Yan's broken sword was wrapped in spiritual power silk, The Observers' dark gold cube was slightly warm in the interlayer of his backpack, and several batches of portable twilight beacons were brought as inventory. Tie Chui's portable forging furnace had been dismantled into several meteorite iron chests stacked in the corner of the cargo hold.

Bai Ye sat opposite him, performing the final round of synchronization calibration between the micro Time Law beacon and the Ore vein coordinates, confirming that the time flow in the area where the Ore vein was located was basically consistent with the outside world—The Observers had deliberately avoided time-anomaly areas when selecting the site because the Foundation of Resonance needed to grow in a stable time flow; any interference from the Time Law would destroy its crystal structure.

Yan Shan and Hou Tu sat in the corner of the cargo hold, and a complete underground Spiritual Qi flow map of the area where the Ore vein was located had been added to the obsidian board in front of them.

Hou Tu had hardly closed his eyes for the past few days, marking the vibration frequency of the Ore vein into node coordinates one by one, with each node corresponding to the direction of a branch within the Ore vein.

Yan Shan's rough fingers slowly traced those nodes, and the fatigue cracks on the surface of the Rock Pattern on his right arm were slowly healing under the nourishment of Twilight Energy.

The flying ship landed on a scorched earth deep in the Dark Domain that no one had ever set foot on.

The degree of Law chaos here was more severe than on the outskirts of the Dark Domain, and the air was filled with an extremely strong burnt smell and the lingering scent of even more ancient Primary energy.

Shen Ye was the first to walk down the gangway. On the detector screen, an extremely stable Law fluctuation frequency pulsed—the vibration of the Foundation of Resonance, perfectly synchronized with the pulsation of the Heart of Twilight deep within his Dantian.

The entrance to the Ore vein was hidden deep within a meteorite iron mountain wrapped in layers of scorch marks from the Law of Ash.

The surface of the mountain had been scorched countless times, and the charred rock walls were covered with dense Law cracks.

The entrance itself was a natural fissure extending from the bottom of the mountain. Embedded in the rock walls on both sides of the fissure were extremely fine dark gold Ore vein patterns, each of which was glowing slightly, shrouding the entire fissure in a very faint golden-purple halo.

Shen Ye condensed the twilight longsword in his hand. The twilight light on the sword resonated with the Ore vein patterns, and a very faint echo came from deep within the fissure—it was not an echo, but the Ore vein responding to energy of the same source.

After walking down the fissure for a long time, the main vein of the Ore vein finally appeared before everyone.

It extended from deep within the rock wall, entirely a very faint dark gold, with the same Law patterns as The Observers database shell flowing on its surface.

The volume of the Ore vein far exceeded expectations. The main vein was nearly hundreds of meters in diameter, and branch veins extended in all directions along the rock walls, each branch glowing slightly, shrouding the entire underground cavity in a very stable golden-purple halo.

In the center of the cavity was a piece of Ore that had naturally detached from the main vein. It was the size of a fist, and extremely pure Primary Resonance energy flowed through it. It was identical in material to the database shell—it was a piece of the mother Ore left behind after The Observers had taken a small piece back then, still floating and rotating slowly in place after countless years.

Shen Ye reached out and grasped the mother Ore fragment. The heart deep within his Dantian produced an extremely intense resonance with the Primary Resonance energy inside the fragment.

The fragment automatically merged into his palm, penetrated his Meridians, and flowed into his Dantian. The flame of the Heart of Twilight swelled several times over after absorbing the energy of the mother Ore.

This was not a Breakthrough, but another tempering of Law density—the Primary Resonance energy contained in the mother Ore was purer than that of the database shell; it directly built a miniature Primary Resonance platform inside Shen Ye's body.

After synchronizing the frequency of the mother Ore resonance with the miniature resonance platform in his Dantian, he sat cross-legged and began to collect the main vein Ore.

The twilight longsword cut in inch by inch along the natural texture of the main vein, and every piece of Ore cut off perfectly preserved the internal Primary Resonance Law patterns.

Tie Chui set up the portable forging furnace in the center of the cavity.

He calibrated the furnace temperature using the frequency of the mother Ore resonance and put the first batch of Ore into the furnace. The Ore slowly melted in the furnace fire into an extremely viscous dark gold liquid metal.

While controlling the furnace temperature, he said without looking back that the hardness of this batch of liquid metal after cooling would far exceed all existing twilight beacon shells, and the activation efficiency could be increased by at least several times.

He told Shen Ye to go ahead and focus on the Breakthrough to True God, and leave the beacon matter to him.

Yan Shan found the most suitable location for tempering the Rock Pattern deep within the main vein—it was the intersection of the main vein and a branch vein, where the Primary Resonance energy was the most concentrated.

He immersed his right arm into the dark gold liquid Ore gushing out at the intersection. The high-temperature Ore liquid penetrated along the fatigue cracks on the surface of the Rock Pattern, recrystallizing inside the cracks.

The newly born Rock Pattern did not cover the surface of the old scars but grew outward from deep within the cracks, each new pattern carrying a very faint dark gold Primary Resonance light.

He withdrew his right arm, clenched his fist, and said this hardness was unprecedented; next time he encountered a True God-level Seal structure, he would be able to smash through it with one punch.

Bai Ye found a piece of unmined, complete Ore at the top of the main vein. The Time Law patterns inside the Ore were identical to the ancient Time Law structure recorded in the Bai family's ancient star map.

He carefully collected the Ore into the Time Law Array, saying that this sample might help the Bai family break through the final Bottleneck of the load-bearing capacity of the Time Law. This Ore vein was not only the foundation for a True God but also the antidote that generations of Bai family heirs had waited countless years for.

Shen Ye completely merged the mother Ore fragment into his Dantian, and the miniature Primary Resonance platform was thoroughly synchronized with the Heart of Twilight.

The Law path required for the Breakthrough to True God—The Observers' Primary Resonance technology, the Law density load-bearing of the Foundation of Resonance, and the miniature resonance platform built by the mother Ore—were all in place.

He stood up and looked around the entire underground cavity. The main vein Ore had been collected in an amount sufficient for the Breakthrough to True God and for forging the new type of beacons, while the branch veins remained untouched.

The Observers had only taken a small piece back then, and he would not take any more than necessary.

When they returned to the surface, the dark red canopy of the Dark Domain had been torn open by the Twilight Light Network, creating larger cracks.

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

Shen Ye synchronized and calibrated the frequency of the mother Ore resonance with the monitoring station of Wanxiang University, confirming that the Primary Resonance energy in the area where the Ore vein was located would serve as a backup energy pool for the future Breakthrough to True God.

He boarded the flying ship. Qin Shu turned back in the cockpit and asked where to go. He leaned against the porthole and reviewed the frequency of the mother Ore resonance deep within his Dantian once more.