94: Chapter 94 Military Might in the Fog

The Crown Prince's experimental base was located at the northwest end of the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist, deep within a dark red canyon wrapped in layers of scorch marks from the Law of Ashes.

After returning from the Abyss of First Birth, Shen Ye only gave the team a short time to rest.

Tie Chui pushed the mobile alchemy room into the cargo hold of the flying ship, while Little One squatted nearby, using a spiritual record book to check the inventory of Purification Pills and twilight beacons box by box.

Yan Shan had completed his final Rock Pattern tempering in the depths of the Body Refining Cave. Hou Tu had converted the ancient seal crack data brought back from the Abyss of First Birth into node coordinates for the underground spiritual energy flow. Father and son sat cross-legged on the stone slab, facing each other, silently adjusting their breathing rhythm.

Bai Ye stood beside the flying ship's gangway, the Time Law array slowly rotating around him. He repeatedly calibrated the data on the resonance between the twilight energy and the Time Law in the palace of the Abyss of First Birth; the golden light of the array was deeper and steadier than ever.

Qin Youyou immersed the ancient war spear into the twilight quenching pool one last time. The bone blade fragments that had shattered on the outskirts of the Abyss of First Birth were covered by newly formed twilight patterns. When the tempering was complete, she lifted the war spear, its shaft gleaming with a cold luster in the morning light.

The flying ship ascended, and Qin Shu pushed the engines to the limit.

Shen Ye leaned against the porthole, his consciousness sinking into the Land of Gods and Demons.

After breaking through to a Third-Level God, the area of the Cultivation Divine Kingdom had soared to several million square kilometers, and the total number of kin was steadily growing toward ten million. The Land of Gods and Demons expanded in sync, with the daily production of Twilight Apostles exceeding several hundred. Chen and Ye stood on either side of the Twilight Altar, continuously injecting holy light faith and abyss faith along the law patterns inside the altar into the Heart of Twilight flame in the center, which had already expanded several times over.

The flame deep within his dantian pulsed steadily, like a heart that would never extinguish.

He opened his eyes, and the canyon stained deep red by the Law of Ashes scorch marks outside the porthole was rapidly approaching.

The flying ship landed next to the wreckage of an abandoned meteorite iron sentry tower on the outskirts of the canyon. General Lin Yuan's frontline camp had already set up a temporary command post at the canyon entrance.

The complete communication logs seized by the reconnaissance team from the ruins were marked one by one on the sand table, confirming that the Crown Prince had returned directly to the experimental base after leaving the Abyss of First Birth and had ordered all new Void Clan Warrior types still under testing to be withdrawn into the base.

Qin Shu projected the latest frontline reconnaissance data onto the sand table—the intensity of the low-frequency vibrations coming from deep within the base was continuously rising. These were the law fluctuations unique to the compression and condensation of massive amounts of Abyssal Energy, and the frequency was exactly the same as the residual fluctuations on the altar in the Abyss of First Birth.

"He intends to concentrate his power to complete the final version of the Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body."

Shen Ye placed the residual Mirror Fire energy sample brought back from the Abyss of First Birth on the edge of the sand table. "When I broke through to a Third-Level God in the Abyss of First Birth, the law fluctuations generated by the resonance between the Mirror Fire and the Heart of Twilight must have been captured by his base's monitoring system. He knows I completed the breakthrough before him, so he will spare no cost to accelerate the final fusion of the Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body, even if it means sacrificing stability, just to finish before we attack."

General Lin Yuan's command baton drew a circle around the periphery of the base.

The coverage boundary of the Twilight Light Network just happened to hit the outer edge of the base's law barrier. The light network could suppress the activity of Abyssal Energy but could not directly penetrate the Crown Prince's law barrier.

To break through the barrier, a gap had to be torn in it, and only one person could find the location of that gap.

Yan Shan had already walked to the sand table.

Hou Tu followed behind him. The ancient seal crack data brought back from the Abyss of First Birth had been converted by him into node coordinates for underground spiritual energy flows. The newly tempered Rock Patterns extended from his elbows to his shoulder blades, their surface glowing with a very faint twilight luster.

When he smashed open the ancient seal in the palace of the Abyss of First Birth, he had taken the full force of the seal's recoil; the new Rock Patterns were denser and tougher than before.

"The barrier's law structure is of the same origin as the ancient seal in the Abyss of First Birth. The Crown Prince is imitating the Twilight Civilization's sealing technology, but the imitation must have structural weaknesses. As long as we can find the nodes, one punch will be enough."

Bai Ye's Time Stop domain could freeze the circulation of laws inside and outside the barrier, buying a window of time for Yan Shan to strike.

After being tempered by twilight, Qin Youyou's ancient war spear had a perception range that could cover the entire canyon. Once Yan Shan broke the barrier, she would immediately lock onto the positions of the remaining new warriors inside the base.

Both shield and spear were in position.

Shen Ye's gaze swept over everyone at the edge of the sand table.

Tie Chui was crouching in the corner holding a miniature model of the mobile alchemy room, while Little One was lying nearby, drawing a map of the mineral crystal distribution on the outskirts of the canyon with a spiritual record book.

At the entrance to the medical station, Second Lieutenant Meng Yan was distributing the last batch of Purification Pills to the wounded soldiers who were about to set off with the assault team. A few light casualties who had just removed their bandages were stuffing the pills into their pockets.

Smoke rose from the chimney of the camp cafeteria, and General Lin Yuan's orderly delivered dinner to the outside of the command tent, but no one went in to eat.

He pressed the small amulet on his chest through his clothes. It had been naturally protected by the spiritual power in his body when he broke through to a Third-Level God and remained intact to this day. The stitches were crooked, and one corner was sewn inside out, exactly the same as when Liu Yang had shoved it into his hand.

He turned to the sand table and condensed a twilight longsword in his hand, pointing the tip at the very center of the Crown Prince's experimental base.

"Tie Chui is responsible for pushing the mobile alchemy room to the base's perimeter and using the twilight beacons to continuously suppress the Abyssal Energy on the barrier's edge. Once Yan Shan breaks the barrier, Yan Shan, Bai Ye, Qin Youyou, and I will charge in head-on. General Lin Yuan will command the beacon advancement from the perimeter, and Qin Shu will be responsible for sealing the rift at the rear of the base—the Crown Prince might try to escape through there to the core area of the Abyssal Empire."

Everyone stood at attention simultaneously.

The base's law barrier rose in the deepest part of the canyon, a hemispherical light shield interwoven with dark purple Abyssal Energy and scorch marks from the Law of Ashes.

The surface of the light shield was flowing with extremely fine fragments of the Time Law, of the same origin as the fragments implanted in the new Void Clan Warrior types, but with a much higher density.

Bai Ye raised his right hand, and the Time Stop domain descended silently from the sky, shrouding the entire barrier in pure golden law light.

The time fragments on the surface of the barrier were forcibly frozen within the Time Stop domain, their flow speed dropping sharply to near zero.

Yan Shan took a step forward, Hou Tu following behind him, his palms pressed to the ground to sense every detail of the mineral vein flow beneath the barrier, transmitting the node coordinates to his father's spiritual consciousness one by one at extremely short intervals.

"The energy circulation nodes of this barrier are several times more numerous than the ancient seal of the Abyss of First Birth. The Crown Prince imitated the structure of the twilight seal, but the foundation is still Abyssal Energy, so the stability is far inferior to the original. The biggest weakness is in the deepest part—the position slightly below the center of the barrier, directly opposite the law pool in the base's core area. All the imitation law patterns diffuse outward with it as the center."

Yan Shan stood directly in front of the node, his right arm's Rock Patterns suddenly hardening, and he punched into it.

The Spiral Spiritual Power transmitted in reverse along the imitation law patterns inside the barrier, shattering the node from the outermost layer.

Cracks extended in all directions along the law patterns. The time fragments on the surface of the barrier could not flow or repair themselves under Bai Ye's freezing, the structure of the imitation seal was dismantled from the root, and the entire barrier exploded outward from the center, creating a huge gap.

Before the shockwave of the collision between the gold-purple twilight and the dark purple Abyssal Energy had dissipated, Qin Youyou's war spear had already locked onto the depths of the gap.

Her spear's perception range covered the entire interior of the base. In the spiritual map in her mind, dozens of new warriors—larger than the peripheral test products, with denser bone armor, and with Time Law fragments fully integrated into their Abyssal Energy circulation—were gathering from the depths of the base toward the gap.

"This batch isn't a test product; it's a mass-produced model. The Time Law fragments on their bone blades have completely merged with the Abyssal Energy and won't disintegrate on their own anymore. The Crown Prince has dumped his entire remaining stock behind the barrier!"

Bai Ye's Time Stop domain descended a second blockade at the gap, freezing the first few mass-produced warriors in a charging posture.

Yan Shan did not retract his fist; Hou Tu's next node coordinate had already been transmitted to his spiritual consciousness. Using the recoil, he turned and threw another punch, slamming it into another law pattern intersection on the flank of the gap.

Qin Youyou dashed out from between the two, her spear tip cutting in from the flank, piercing the chest of a warrior frozen by Time Stop, and with a shake of the spear shaft, she shattered the Time Law fragments along with the Abyssal core.

Shen Ye unfolded the Land of Cultivation.

Jin Lin leaped into the air, and the Three Dragon Sword Light merged into a blinding golden sword beam, piercing precisely into the second wave of warriors surging out from the depths of the gap.

Mu Sheng's perception vines covered both sides of the gap. The white flowers at the ends of the third-generation vines could simultaneously perceive vibrations, law fluctuations, and spiritual sense fluctuations. Xiao Zhi's Spirit Synchronization Net transferred the perception data in real-time to the spiritual consciousness of Jin Lin and Daoist Quan.

Daoist Quan pulled his hands out of his sleeves, and three streams of Spiral Water Flow intertwined into a net in the air. After breaking through to a Third-Level God, the Cavitation Cloud tactic could cover the entire canyon entrance, and countless micro-cavitation bubbles exploded simultaneously among the mass-produced warriors, disrupting the rhythm of their Abyssal Energy circulation.

"The gap is held! Tie Chui—the beacons!"

Yan Shan smashed the core of the last warrior in front of him with one punch and turned to roar toward the outskirts of the canyon.

Tie Chui pushed the mobile alchemy room to the front of the gap, and Little One, squatting on top of the alchemy room, stuffed the mini twilight beacons into the activation slots one by one.

Dozens of beacons lit up simultaneously, and a stable Twilight Light Network extended violently from the gap into the interior of the base, continuously suppressing the activity of all remaining Abyssal Energy within its coverage.

The Abyssal Energy circulation within those mass-produced warriors became disordered under the twilight suppression, and the dark purple light on the surface of their bone armor faded at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Deep within the base, an Abyssal fluctuation heavier than any mass-produced warrior suddenly exploded.

It wasn't a low-frequency vibration, but a high-frequency law resonance, with a frequency exactly the same as the handwriting left by the Crown Prince on the altar of the Abyss of First Birth.

The Crown Prince's Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body had completed its final fusion, and he was waking up from the law pool in the deepest part of the base.

Shen Ye held the twilight longsword in his hand, the twilight light on the sword resonating at the same frequency as the beacon light network activated by Tie Chui at the gap.

"Leave the Crown Prince to me. Yan Shan, Bai Ye, and Qin Youyou, clear the perimeter. Qin Shu, push the blockade line at the rear of the base forward another two hundred meters; don't give him any escape route."

He was the first to step into the gap.

Bai Ye's Time Stop domain froze all remaining Abyssal Energy along the way. In Bai Ye's domain, the time fragments were forcibly stripped, shattered, and turned into extremely fine dark purple dust, which fell onto Shen Ye's shoulders with a rustle; Yan Shan and Hou Tu kicked the shattered bone armor fragments at the gap to the sides, clearing a complete passage for the attack; Qin Youyou's war spear continuously locked onto the depths of the base, toward that Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body that was currently waking up.

It had not yet fully emerged, but Shen Ye had already walked to the final law seal in the base's core area.

The surface of the seal was flowing with law patterns carved by the Crown Prince's own hand, exactly the same as the handwriting of the phrase "A perfect body, should trace back to its origin" on the altar of the Abyss of First Birth.

He gripped the longsword tightly, the tip pressing against the center of the seal.

The flame of the Heart of Twilight deep within his dantian suddenly expanded, and the gold-purple flames spread along the sword body to the surface of the seal, reducing those twisted abyssal patterns one by one back to their most primitive, primordial abyss form.

The seal was crumbling; the Crown Prince's Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body was right before his eyes.