118: Chapter 118 Quiet Growth

After returning from the Abyss of Resonance, life suddenly slowed down.

It wasn't that there was nothing to do—on the contrary, the analysis of The Observers' database, the mass production of new twilight beacons, the defensive layout of the frontline camp, and the rotational training of the kinfolk all required his participation.

But it was no longer like before, where every day began with battle and ended with a Breakthrough; the rhythm had shifted from a dense drumbeat to a long, drawn-out melody.

It took Shen Ye several days to adapt to this change.

Previously, he would lean by the dormitory window flipping through the spiritual power records, only to be called away by emergency messages after a few pages; now, he could spend an entire morning in the Law Analysis Laboratory discussing the coding logic of a set of Law patterns with Lin Tianyin, go to the Body Refining Cave in the afternoon to test the hardness of new Rock Patterns with Yan Shan, and go to the alchemy room in the evening to taste a sip of the spirit fruit wine newly brewed by Tie Chui—yes, Tie Chui had started brewing wine.

Tie Chui announced this on the afternoon the fifth batch of portable twilight beacons rolled off the production line.

At the time, Little One was lying on a desk in the corner of the alchemy room transcribing inventory data. When she heard Tie Chui say, "I'm going to brew wine," her pen paused, and she looked up at him, ore crystal powder still clinging to her two braids.

Tie Chui's reason was simple: the beacon production line was now fully automated, and the recipe for the Purification Pill had stabilized. After he became idle, he cross-referenced the resonance frequency of the mother ore with the crystallization principle of the spiral ore crystal and discovered that spirit fruit wine ripened with ore crystal powder could naturally ferment in a very short time. The alcohol content was low, but the taste was refreshing and sweet, and it didn't go to one's head after drinking.

He had already tried it.

He immediately pulled a sealed meteorite iron jar from the corner of the alchemy room, unscrewed the lid, and a faint fruity aroma mixed with the unique, cool aura of ore crystals wafted out.

Little One leaned in to smell it and asked if she could have some.

He said no, she was a minor.

Little One curled her lip and lowered her head to continue transcribing data.

Shen Ye took the small cup Tie Chui handed him and tasted it—it really didn't go to one's head, and there was a trace of a very subtle ore crystal aftertaste within the clear sweetness, a completely different style from Qin Sese's wild, potent liquor.

He said it was good and that some could be distributed to the wounded soldiers in the frontline camp; it was more suitable for the recovery period than potent liquor.

Tie Chui said he was already doing so, and the first batch of spirit fruit wine would be sent to the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist with the next supply shipment.

Shen Ye leaned against the doorway of the alchemy room, holding the wine cup, watching Little One draw the inventory curve for the new batch of beacons in the record book.

The sunset shone in from outside the window, dyeing her two dusty braids a faint gold.

He suddenly remembered that evening a long time ago in the dormitory at Nanjiang No. 7 High School, when Liu Yang poked his head down from the upper bunk and asked him, "What do you think you'll awaken?"

Back then, his only imagination of the God Kingdom was that having enough was sufficient; he had never thought that one day, his kinfolk would brew their own wine.

The next morning, Shen Ye went to the Law Analysis Laboratory as usual.

Lin Tianyin was dismantling the latest observation logs decrypted from the third major zone of The Observers' database one by one.

One of the logs recorded The Observers' long-term tracking of an ancient Law node somewhere in the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist—that node was not a source of distortion from the Primordial Abyss, but a backup purification platform left behind by the Twilight Ancestors before they sealed the Ancestor of the Abyss.

The Observers added a note at the end of the log: "This node is still online."

Given that the time this log was written was extremely ancient, the words "still online" meant that this purification platform was still operating autonomously to this day.

Shen Ye forwarded the coordinates to Gu Qinghan and Jiang Yue.

Jiang Yue spent most of the day cross-referencing the inscriptions on the altar of the Abyss of First Birth with the log, confirming that the purification platform was one of the auxiliary purification facilities built by the Twilight Ancestors during the sealing war, used to handle scattered distorted Laws leaking from the periphery of the Seal.

Its builder was not any of the main gods among the Twilight Ancestors, but a group of Twilight Apostles specializing in purification—The Observers called them "Tower Keepers" in the log.

The Tower Keepers did not leave their names, but their daily work logs were completely recorded in The Observers' database, including the maintenance cycle of the purification platform, energy supply lines, and collaborative calibration parameters with the repair circuit of the Core Ruins Seal.

This work log was extremely dull, consisting of repetitive data records every day, but it was precisely these dull data points that completely preserved all the technical details required for the autonomous operation of the purification platform.

"The value of this purification platform lies not in its energy Rank, but in its autonomous operation System. If we can repair it and reconnect it to the repair circuit of the Core Ruins Seal, the repair circuit will no longer need Bai Ye's manual Time Law Array to assist with calibration—the purification platform itself can provide a stable Law calibration signal. More importantly, the design principle of this purification platform shares common ground at the underlying structure with your Primordial Resonance Law network; both convert the Fusion energy of Holy Light and the Abyssal Void into continuous purification output. The process of repairing it is, in itself, a real-world test of the stability of your Law network."

Lin Tianyin added, "It is still operating autonomously, which means the core System is intact; it only needs external energy to be reactivated and a small amount of maintenance."

Bai Ye rushed over from Shenyu University that evening and performed a deep match between the ancient star map of the Bai family and the coordinates of the purification platform.

After the repair circuit was started, it had always needed his Time Law Array to assist in calibrating the time anomalies in the Seal interlayer. If this backup purification platform could be successfully activated, Bai Ye could completely withdraw his Time Law Array to the top floor of the Golden Tower and focus on helping the successive heirs of the Bai family solve the problem of Time Law backlash.

After reading the log, he said he would personally assist Shen Ye in completing this activation. "This is what I owe the Twilight Ancestors."

When the flying ship took off from Wanxiang University, Shen Ye only brought Yan Shan, Hou Tu, and Tie Chui.

The area where the purification platform was located was not deep within the Dark Domain, but deep within a meteorite iron mine that had been repeatedly scorched by the scars of Ash Laws between the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist and the Core Ruins.

The Tower Keepers had embedded the entire purification platform into the belly of the meteorite iron mine back then, utilizing the natural Law resistance of the meteorite iron to withstand the erosion of the surrounding distorted Laws.

The flying ship landed at the foot of the mine, and Shen Ye walked deep into the belly of the mountain along the entrance fissure marked in the Tower Keepers' logs.

Embedded in the meteorite iron rock walls on both sides of the fissure were extremely fine twilight patterns—they were homologous to the patterns on the altar base of the Twilight Palace, but simpler; they were daily maintenance marks carved by the Tower Keepers themselves.

The purification platform was located in a natural meteorite iron cavity in the center of the mountain belly.

Its shape resembled a scaled-down twilight beacon, with a base forged from the bedrock of the Abyss of Resonance, and its body was engraved with dense purification Law patterns, highly similar in structure to the Law patterns running in Shen Ye's Primordial Resonance Law network, but older and simpler.

The core energy pool had been dry for countless years, but the autonomously operating Law circuit at the bottom of the pool was still breathing at a very slow rhythm—the Tower Keepers had not shut it down before leaving; they hoped that latecomers would be able to reactivate it.

Shen Ye pressed his hand onto the base of the purification platform, and the golden-purple Law network deep within his Dantian automatically unfolded, synchronizing its rhythm with the breathing of the purification platform's core circuit.

The branches deep within the ore vein that were still glowing faintly sensed the approach of homologous energy, and the twilight patterns on the purification platform's base began to light up one after another, spreading from the base to the body, and extending from the body to the dome, until the entire cavity was shrouded in a faint, dark-gold purification light.

The core energy pool began to accumulate energy again after the Law network was connected, and the autonomously operating Law circuit at the bottom of the pool reactivated the collaborative calibration signal with the repair circuit of the Core Ruins Seal.

Bai Ye stood before the repair circuit monitoring screen, watching the time anomaly fluctuation that had lasted for countless years shift from violent oscillation to a gentle, stable frequency after the purification platform was reactivated.

The repair circuit no longer needed the external Time Law Array to assist with calibration; the autonomous calibration signal of the purification platform itself was stable enough.

He was silent for a while, then removed the mini Time Law beacon from the repair circuit and tucked it into his bosom.

"This is what the Bai family owes you."

Shen Ye synchronized the energy output frequency of the reactivated purification platform with his Dantian Law network.

The process of repairing the purification platform was itself an excellent test of stability—when his Primordial Resonance Law network connected to this ancient purification System, there was no lag or rejection, and all the Law patterns could seamlessly interface with the technology left behind by the Tower Keepers back then.

His accumulation at True God Tier 5 was already solid enough, and he had already outlined the general direction for the path to Rank 6 in his mind.

He encrypted the complete data of the reactivated backup purification platform and sent it to Lin Tianyin, with a short message attached: "The first step of verification is complete. It is running well, and we can continue to push forward."