95: Chapter 95 Core Area

At the moment the seal disintegrated, a scorching dark purple shockwave erupted from the depths of the Core Area.

Shen Ye held his twilight longsword horizontally in front of him. The twilight radiance and Abyssal Energy collided on the blade, emitting a piercing metallic tearing sound.

The shockwave swept up the fragments of the seal, forming a high-speed rotating storm of Law fragments within the narrow passage.

Shen Ye took a step forward against the storm. The twilight longsword purified every incoming fragment one by one; the dark purple Abyssal patterns remaining on the fragments faded to grey-white, one after another, within the twilight halo.

As the storm dissipated, the Core Area revealed its full appearance.

It was a massive, circular Law Pool.

The pool walls were built from solid dark purple Abyssal crystals, their surfaces densely carved with intricate patterns of Time Law fragments. Each pattern flowed slowly, its frequency perfectly matching the handwriting left by the Crown Prince on the altar in the Abyss of First Birth.

The bottom of the pool was filled with liquefied Abyssal Energy. The dark purple surface of the liquid rotated on its own without any external force, forming a massive vortex.

In the center of the vortex, a humanoid body was slowly rising from the liquid Abyssal Energy.

That was the Crown Prince's Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body.

It was completely different from all the Void Clan Warriors seen before—his bone armor was not dark purple, but pure pitch-black, with extremely fine dark golden patterns flowing across its surface. Each pattern was an independently operating fragment of the Time Law.

His physique was similar to that of an ordinary human, but the density of Abyssal Law radiating from his body far exceeded the limit of the demigod rank, even touching the threshold of the main god rank.

His eyes were closed.

The final fusion of the Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body had not yet completely ended. Fragments of the Time Law were converging along the dark golden patterns on the surface of the bone armor toward his heart. Each convergence caused the liquid surface of the entire Law Pool to tremble violently.

Shen Ye did not wait for him to open his eyes.

The twilight longsword flew from his hand. The golden-purple radiance on the blade carved a brilliant arc through the air, piercing straight toward the heart of the Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body.

Fragments of the Time Law spontaneously condensed into a translucent Law shield wall before the tip of the sword. After the longsword pierced an inch into the shield wall, it was deflected by an incredibly strong backlash of time, and the blade flew back into Shen Ye's hand.

A circle of dark golden ripples spread across the surface of the shield wall; wherever the ripples passed, the Abyssal crystals at the edge of the pool cracked.

The Crown Prince opened his eyes.

His pupils were pure dark gold, originating from the same source as the patterns on the bone armor, with a faint, extremely thin thread of twilight radiance slowly flowing deep within them.

Shen Ye recognized that radiance; it was the residual frequency of the Mirror Fire from the Abyss of First Birth.

When the Crown Prince left the Abyss of First Birth, he had not only left behind that line of text, but he had also used some method to steal a wisp of flame from the Mirror Fire.

At this moment, that wisp of flame was being forcibly integrated into the core of his Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body, used to stabilize the fusion of the Time Law fragments and Abyssal Energy.

He had the blueprints, but he lacked twilight energy to activate the Mirror Fire, so he could only use Abyssal Energy to forcibly suppress it, allowing it to barely provide a stabilizing function within his body.

This was not a true fusion; it was a hijacking.

"You are faster than I expected."

The Crown Prince's voice was very low, like two Abyssal crystals rubbing against each other.

He walked out of the Law Pool. The liquid Abyssal Energy solidified into black stairs beneath his feet, and each step left a dark golden Law imprint on the ground.

Shen Ye did not answer.

He recalled his twilight longsword and sank his consciousness into the Land of Gods and Demons.

Chen and Ye opened their eyes simultaneously. Holy Light faith and Abyss faith were injected into his body along the Law patterns of the Twilight Altar.

After breaking through to the third-rank god, the wisp of flame from the Heart of Twilight resonated with the Mirror Fire from the Abyss of First Birth. At this moment, his speed in mobilizing twilight energy was faster than ever before.

The golden-purple radiance on the longsword expanded violently, shrouding the entire Law Pool in a twilight halo.

The wisp of Mirror Fire forcibly suppressed within the Crown Prince's body sensed the energy of the same origin and began to throb violently within him.

There is no antagonism between twilight energy and twilight energy; they only attract each other.

The Crown Prince had forcibly suppressed the Mirror Fire with Abyssal Law for too long; now, it had finally found its true home.

The Crown Prince looked down at his chest.

The dark golden patterns on the surface of the bone armor were fading at a speed visible to the naked eye. The wisp of flame had lost control within him and was dismantling the fusion structure of the Time Law fragments and Abyssal Energy from the inside.

He raised his head, and for the first time, astonishment appeared in his dark golden pupils.

Shen Ye's sword had already pierced to his chest.

This strike did not pierce his heart; the tip of the sword merely rested against the surface of the bone armor, slowly injecting twilight energy with an extremely light and gentle force.

It was the exact same force he had used when activating the twilight crystal at the underground palace altar and resonating with the Mirror Fire in the Abyss of First Birth.

The Mirror Fire within the Crown Prince expanded violently, melting the Abyssal Law that had been forcibly suppressing it from the inside out.

The dark golden patterns on the surface of the bone armor disintegrated one after another. The Time Law fragments lost their stable carrier and, within the twilight halo, were reduced one by one into the most primitive Time Law remnants, drifting above the Law Pool like countless, extremely fine golden snowflakes.

"You stole the Mirror Fire to stabilize the Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body, but twilight energy cannot be suppressed by Abyssal Law. You used the wrong method and the wrong power, so it will not be used by you; it will only melt you from the inside."

Shen Ye withdrew his longsword. The Crown Prince knelt on one knee, and cracks on his pitch-black bone armor spread from his chest to his limbs.

The wisp of Mirror Fire within him had completely escaped his control and was now hovering above his head, rotating slowly, waiting for Shen Ye's guidance.

"Take it back. It belongs to the Abyss of First Birth, and it belongs to the Heart of Twilight. You are unworthy."

Shen Ye reached out and gathered the wisp of flame into his palm. The flame danced lightly on his fingertips before merging into the blade of the twilight longsword and disappearing.

The Crown Prince did not answer.

He kept his head lowered, the light of the Law rapidly fading from his dark golden pupils.

He knelt at the edge of the Law Pool like a statue of obsidian that was disintegrating.

The liquid Abyssal Energy in the pool began to revert on its own; the dark purple surface of the liquid faded to grey-white layer by layer, and the patterns of the Time Law fragments peeled off the pool walls, falling in a flurry to the bottom of the pool.

The core of this experimental base was the Crown Prince himself; he used his own power to maintain the operation of the Laws of the entire base.

At this moment, the Abyssal Law within him was being dismantled from the inside by the Mirror Fire, and the Abyssal Energy supply for the entire base was cut off at the source.

On the periphery of the Core Area, Bai Ye sensed the collective disintegration of the Time Law fragments deep within the base and withdrew the Time Stop domain from the breach.

The mass-produced warriors that were still entangled with the outer defensive lines stopped moving simultaneously. The Time Law fragments within them shared the same Law Pool as the Crown Prince; after the Law Pool collapsed, all the fragments collectively failed.

Yan Shan smashed the last motionless warrior in front of him with a single punch.

Qin Youyou put away her battle spear, and the residual bone blade fragments on the tip of the spear fell with a rustle onto the gravel ground of the canyon.

Shen Ye walked out of the Law Pool.

Jin Lin held his sword, Mu Sheng let his vines hang, Daoist Quan gathered his sleeves, and Tie Chui squatted on top of the mobile alchemy room, with Little One lying next to him, rapidly copying down the energy readings after the Law faded within the canyon using a spiritual power logbook.

The Rock Pattern on Yan Shan's right arm slowly faded, losing its hardening. Hou Tu withdrew his palm from the ground, and the father and son stood up together, looking toward the ruins deep in the Core Area that were fading from dark purple to grey-white.

Qin Shu's voice came through the communicator, extremely brief, like the routine "Continue" after countless projection training sessions: "The rift blockade line behind the base has been pushed to the designated position. The Crown Prince's retreat route has been completely sealed."

Shen Ye stored the twilight longsword into the Land of Gods and Demons.

From the Sea of Thousand Realms Mist to the Abyss of First Birth, from the resonance of the Mirror Fire to the forced extraction from within the Crown Prince, every battle had been tempering the Law density of this sword.

The bottleneck of the third-rank god had been passed; the next step was the main god.

The Crown Prince's Perfect Abyss-Devouring Body had been defeated, but the Abyssal Empire would not give up at this.

He turned his detector toward the remnants of Abyssal Law deep within the base ruins that had not yet been restored. He turned his wrist, the tip of his sword pointing diagonally at the ground, and walked toward the remains of the Law Pool in the deepest part of the Core Area.

There was one last thing left behind by the Crown Prince that needed him to handle it personally.