87: Chapter 87 Inheritance

The moment he received the entire inheritance, the ancient laws of the entire underground palace opened up to him simultaneously—not as an infusion, but as recognition.

The flame inside the altar recognized the twilight energy within him, recognized the holy light and abyss that Chen and Ye had fused together in the Twilight Spirit Spring over countless days and nights, and recognized the dragon pattern on the Jin Lin sword that had been tempered from the Twilight Sword Qi.

"The complete cultivation method for the Twilight Apostle, the core law of light and dark fusion, and this sanctuary itself—it is not merely a warehouse for storing inheritance; it is the final mobile fortress of the Twilight Civilization."

Shen Ye turned around and looked at the few people standing at the entrance of the underground palace.

Second Lieutenant Meng Yan was still crouching beside the altar base, carefully placing the last piece of the Law Resonator fragment into a meteorite iron box.

Bai Ye leaned against the edge of the tower gate, his hands in his pockets, the afterglow of the Time Law not yet fully dissipated from his fingertips.

Yan Shan sat cross-legged at the entrance of the stone stairs, the Rock Pattern on his right arm glowing with a faint golden luster under the illumination of the twilight beam. Hou Tu crouched beside him, his palm pressed against the ground, sensing the orientation of the ore veins beneath the underground palace.

"I will pass the core law of light and dark fusion to Chen and Ye. They have spent countless days and nights fusing them in the Twilight Spirit Spring and have long since reached the threshold; all they lacked was this final step."

Shen Ye pressed his hand onto the surface of the altar. The flame of the Heart of Twilight suddenly expanded several times over, and a beam of extremely thin but extremely bright twilight light shot out from the center of the altar, piercing through the dome of the underground palace and directly into the Land of Gods and Demons.

Chen and Ye opened their eyes simultaneously, the twilight light enveloping them.

Holy light and abyss merged within them at an unprecedented speed. It was not confrontation, not coexistence, but true fusion—light and dark were no longer two independent forces, but two edges of the same sword.

The base of the Twilight Altar emitted a long, resonant low hum, and the number of Twilight Apostles being born began to climb exponentially.

"The complete cultivation method for the Twilight Apostle will be passed to Tie Chui and Qing Ye. Tie Chui's spiral purification pill requires the flame of the Heart of Twilight to increase its purity, and Qing Ye's Spirit Plant Guidance Pill requires twilight energy to stabilize the law structure. With the complete cultivation method, they can mass-produce twilight beacons, twilight weapons, and twilight armor—all the equipment needed on the front lines."

Shen Ye sealed the cultivation method into a probe and sent it encrypted to Lin Tianyin at Wanxiang University.

She would dismantle this ancient inheritance into replicable technical standards in the Law Analysis Laboratory, and then distribute them to every front-line outpost through Su Wanqing's chamber of commerce channels.

"This mobile fortress—" he looked at Second Lieutenant Meng Yan, "will be left to General Lin Yuan. It can move autonomously in the core area of the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist, and the power of the Devouring Abyss within the coverage of the twilight beam will be continuously suppressed. With it, the defensive line of the front-line camp can advance further."

Second Lieutenant Meng Yan stood up and solemnly placed the meteorite iron box on the altar.

"Gu Yan entrusted his broken sword to Qin Shu, and Qin Shu passed it to you. Now you have brought his relic back to the sanctuary and brought the inheritance of the Twilight Civilization back to the front lines."

He paused, did not say "thank you," but simply pressed his right fist against his chest, performing a military salute between independent Pioneers.

Shen Ye pressed his hand onto the meteorite iron box.

"Leave his bone blade fragments on the altar base. He has guarded it for long enough; it is time to let him rest here."

Second Lieutenant Meng Yan was silent for a moment, then took the piece of meteorite iron fragment engraved with "Long Night is endless, the twilight never dies" from the box and gently embedded it into the twilight script groove on the altar base.

The handwriting on the fragment glowed with a dark golden light under the illumination of the twilight, echoing the flame mark in the center of the altar from afar.

Gu Yan's broken sword lay quietly in the center of the altar, the crack on the blade extending from the hilt to the tip now gently filled by the flame of the Heart of Twilight.

Shen Ye walked out of the giant tower.

Bai Ye straightened up from the edge of the tower gate, the afterglow of the Time Law on his fingertips having completely dissipated.

"Your Time Law backlash can be stabilized by the twilight beam in the future. Chen and Ye have just completed the light and dark fusion, and the twilight energy can help you stabilize the load limit of the Time Law."

Bai Ye was silent for a while.

"My father always worried that Time Stop would sooner or later backlash to an irreversible degree. The average lifespan of the heirs of the Bai family is shorter than that of ordinary people. Your twilight beam, perhaps, is not just able to stabilize laws—it might be the key for me to break through the Main God-level bottleneck."

"When you are ready, come find me. Before that, use Time Stop on the battlefield first. General Lin Yuan's front-line camp needs your domain to hold the defensive line that was just retaken."

Bai Ye pulled his hands out of his pockets, his fingertips slightly curled, and then put them back in.

"Okay."

Ye Qiu's sword spirit circled down from the top of the giant tower, the sword body emitting a very long, resonant sword cry within the twilight beam.

Ye Qiu leaned against the inside of the tower gate, reaching out to gently pat the sword spirit.

"He won't leave. He said he wants to stay here and guard this tower. I will stay with him."

He paused, "From now on, the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist will be my station. Whenever your flying boats pass by, remember to bring a few jugs of Qin Sese's savage strong liquor."

Qin Youyou walked over from the camp, carrying the ancient war spear, with fragments of the bone blade that had shattered in the cave of the ash residue belt still remaining on the spear tip.

She unhooked the savage wine jug from her waist and shoved it into Shen Ye's hand.

"Don't forget the wine we promised to offer to Yan Shan last time. I still have to stay and help General Lin Yuan mop up the remnants, and by the way, use the twilight beam to stabilize my ancient war spear—the nerve pain backlash from the ancient battle intent within the spear body might also be alleviated by the twilight energy."

Shen Ye took the wine jug, clinked it against Qin Youyou's, and they each drank their fill.

When they returned to the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist outpost, Tie Chui was crouching at the entrance of the cafeteria, with a freshly opened military supply box beside him.

The latest batch of spiral purification pills was neatly stacked in the box, the twilight patterns flowing on the surface of the pills denser and brighter than before.

Qing Ye was crouching beside him, fanning herself with the recipe record book of the Spirit Plant Guidance Pill.

"Boss! I heard about the mobile fortress—how many furnaces can that thing hold?"

Tie Chui stood up, "The consumption of purification pills on the front lines has increased several times over; I have to build a mobile pill room nearby."

Shen Ye looked at him, then looked at the twilight beam in the distance that was still burning stably.

All inheritances had been handed over, and all comrades were continuing to move forward at their respective positions.

Gu Yan's bone blade fragments rested in the altar base, and his broken sword lay quietly beside the Heart of Twilight.

Long Night is endless, the twilight never dies.

Those who walked through the Long Night have already fallen into eternal rest, and he must carry this fire and walk to places even further than the sanctuary.