80: Chapter 80 Rest and Recuperation

When the military airship landed at the Wanxiang University spaceport, the twilight over Lake Heart Island was thick.

The beams of light from the four Founding Towers had converged in the sky to form a stable Twilight Light Network, dyeing the entire surface of the lake a flowing dark gold.

Nearly a month had passed since the last time they departed from here for the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist.

Shen Ye walked down the gangway, while Qin Shu was in the cockpit conducting the final post-landing checks of the airship.

Qin Youyou followed behind him, carrying the ancient war spear; after a brief rest at Wanxiang University, she would officially report to the Independent Pioneer Sequence.

Gu Changfeng and Ye Qiu had already left the team at Cangyin City—Gu Changfeng needed to return to the Gu family, while Ye Qiu went straight back to the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist, saying that the sword spirit was too lonely guarding the Twilight Palace alone.

Returning to the student dormitory, Shen Ye placed his backpack at the foot of the bed and first took Gu Yan's broken sword out of the side pocket, re-wrapping it with spiritual silk.

The crack on the sword's body, extending from the guard to the tip, emitted a very faint dark golden light in the twilight, its frequency perfectly matching the flame mark at the center of the palace altar.

He placed the broken sword at the head of the bed, then sat cross-legged and submerged his consciousness into the Divine Kingdom.

In the Cultivation Divine Kingdom, the number of Foundation Establishment Stage dependents had surpassed fifteen hundred.

Jin Lin was teaching the hundred-man sword cultivator squad a new combined sword formation in front of the sword stele—it was not a three-sword strike, but rather the decomposition of the Twilight Sword Qi's resonance frequency into finer segments, allowing every sword cultivator to echo the same frequency with independent sword intent within the Spirit Synchronization Net.

Mu Sheng's sensory vines had been updated to the third generation; the white flowers at the tips of the vines could simultaneously sense vibrations, law fluctuations, and spiritual sense fluctuations, with the three sensory modes switchable in an instant.

Daoist Quan sat cross-legged by the spiritual spring, three Spiral Water Flows slowly rotating in his palm; he was deducing a new technique—fusing Cavitation Cloud with twilight energy, allowing the cavitation bubbles to release both physical vibrations and twilight purification upon bursting, specifically countering the erosion of the Void Race's Abyssal Energy.

Tie Chui's alchemy room had hardly extinguished its fire recently.

He had separated an extremely thin wisp of the Heart of Twilight flame and integrated it into the quenching furnace for the spiral purification pill, finally refining the first batch of finished products after countless failures.

Shen Ye picked one up and placed it in his palm—the surface of the pill was no longer the dark golden rhombic shape from before, but was now covered in faint twilight patterns flowing across its entire body; it felt warm to the touch, like holding a small piece of solidified twilight.

This type of purification pill could inhibit the erosion of Abyssal Energy on the bodies of the dependents in the short term; while it could not yet achieve complete purification, it was already sufficient for the wounded soldiers at the border whose wounds could not heal after being slashed by the Void Race's bone blade.

Yan Shan opened his eyes deep within the Body Refining Cave.

The Rock Pattern on his right arm had been soaking in the twilight medicinal liquid for over half a month; the newly born Rock Pattern had covered all the old scars, and every texture was denser and tougher than before, extending from his elbow to his shoulder blade, then spreading along his spine to his left arm, forming a complete spiral Rock Pattern system.

He stood up, took a fragment of the Void Race's bone blade brought back from the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist from the corner of the Body Refining Cave, and his right arm's Rock Pattern suddenly hardened; with one punch, the bone blade fragment shattered into powder.

He looked down at his fist and said, "It's a bit harder than the Ash King's law burn marks, but it's not enough."

Hou Tu squatted nearby, palms pressed against the stone slab, transmitting the vibration rhythm of the underground spiritual energy flow to his father, assisting him in adjusting the recovery rhythm of the Rock Pattern.

In the Land of Gods and Demons, the Twilight Altar had been built into its prototype.

Chen and Ye stood on either side of the altar, injecting the energy of holy light and the abyss along the law patterns inside the altar into the Heart of Twilight flame at the center.

The flame was much more stable than when it was first brought back from the palace; it no longer flickered, but pulsed continuously and rhythmically.

The first Twilight Apostle stood directly in front of the altar, its form shifting indefinitely between the golden holy light and the dark purple abyss, its left eye golden and its right eye purple.

Behind it, dozens of newly born Twilight Apostles had already finished forming ranks.

Shen Ye withdrew his consciousness and pushed open the dormitory door.

Lin Tianyin stood outside the door, holding a newly released set of reference data for border deployment from the Law Analysis Laboratory.

After the four towers' light beams were activated, the activity range of the Void Tribe Scouts at the southern end of the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist had shrunk by about one-third, and the concentration of Abyssal Energy was also steadily decreasing; however, some intelligence indicated that scattered scouts were probing towards more remote directions, requiring continued attention.

General Lin Yuan's frontline camp had advanced to the area covered by the twilight light beam at the southern edge of the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist, and he needed Shen Ye to activate a twilight beacon at an outpost before departing.

"The beacon's resonance frequency is the same as the twilight crystal; you can just activate it directly using your twilight longsword. I have already encrypted the frequency data and sent it to your detector."

She pushed up her glasses, "Also, Jiang Yue asked me to tell you that she has deciphered most of the twilight script in the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist palace. The new deciphering notes have been sent to your communicator; remember to read them before you leave."

At the other end of the corridor, Su Wanqing was walking over with several boxes of supplies.

She had packed the high-purity Faith Crystal for Yan Shan's recovery and the rare-grade mineral crystal samples for Tie Chui into different sized storage bags, and had also prepared a few sets of emergency communication crystals based on the flight route map, carefully stacking them box by box at the dormitory entrance, and urged Shen Ye to be sure to check them one by one before departing.

Shen Ye nodded in agreement and put these supplies away.

Alone in his room, he sealed the purification pills intended for Second Lieutenant Meng Yan and the token received from Bai Ye into a brocade box, then cross-checked the outpost coordinates sent by Lin Tianyin, Jiang Yue's deciphering notes, and the new flight route data, only zipping up his backpack after confirming that all the seal patterns were intact.

The twilight rose from the lake outside the window, and he pressed the amulet with the stitched-backward corner against his chest.

Tomorrow, back to the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist.