The ice breaking talisman transformed into a fine silver sand black boot sole in the palm of the hand, and the ice crystal bridge grew like a living creature. Every hundred zhang it extended, it condensed the axe marks of Pangu's opening to the sky - those interlocking patterns sealed the first wave of spiritual consciousness when chaos first opened. The bone boat controlled by the ashes followed closely behind, and the fuel runes embedded on the ship's side resonated with the ice crystals, creating a barely stable passage in the lead gray chaos. The light marks dragged by the stern were like footprints left by ancient ancestors in the river of time.
When Xuan's toes stepped onto the ancient realm, the whole world suddenly fell into extreme silence - even the heartbeat was frozen into visible sound waves, hovering in the air in a perfect spiral. He could clearly see the white mist he exhaled condensing into hexagonal crystal clusters in front of him, with each corner reflecting seven equal spectra, like an optical instrument calibrated by the law.
Don't take a deep breath. "Jin's voice came from behind, with a rare heaviness. The sound of the metal wristband rubbing against the railing of the bone boat was amplified into the roar of a glacier cracking." The air here is clusters of solidified oxygen molecules, and inhaling too much will cause the lungs to crystallize. "Her figure appeared in a semi transparent shadow under the refraction of ice crystals, and the frost flowers condensed on the surface of the armor were arranged in a golden ratio.
Xuan nodded, and the dust of time formed a thin film of silver sand on the surface of the body, flowing slowly like liquid metal, isolating the solidified air from the outside. The scene in front of him made his pupils shrink suddenly: on the vast plain stretching for thousands of miles, all existence was frozen in the most extreme moment - on the left was a frozen star rain, with billions of meteors maintaining their trajectories that cut through the night sky, their trails frozen into brilliant light bands, and the curvature of each trajectory conforming to the perfect function of celestial motion; On the right is a frozen tsunami, with seven perfect spectra reflected by the water droplets at the top of the waves. The fish at the bottom of the waves maintain a wagging posture, and each pattern on the scales is precisely symmetrical. Even the angle at which the fish tail hits the water surface is calculated precisely by the law.
Do you see that city? "Jin pointed to the distance, where a city-state composed of light was suspended, and each column of the architectural complex followed the Fibonacci spiral." That is the ancient 'initial city', where the starting point of all civilizations is sealed. Every building you see is the first residence of a certain race; every statue is their first leader - frozen before they make their first choice
Xuan gazed at the city-state and suddenly noticed that the reliefs on the city walls were moving - to be precise, it was the warriors on the reliefs holding their sword movements, but reflecting countless different moments on the blade of the sword. Is this... a slice of time? "He reached out and touched the side of the ship, his fingertips immediately forming a thin layer of ice.
It's the possibility of solidification. "Jin's fingers brushed over the railing, and ice crystals immediately formed on the metal surface. The crack direction was exactly the same as the Heavenly Path emblem of Pangu Axe." In ancient times, the 'optimal solution' of each civilization was sealed, eliminating all possibilities of failure. For example, the warrior wielding the sword, in ancient records, only needed to wield this sword to win forever - but the cost was always staying in the moment of wielding the sword
Before the words could finish, the distant starry rain suddenly burst out with dazzling light. Twelve ice crystal streams of light emanate from the star rain, each carrying solidified time fragments - those fragments contain millions of possible frozen futures. The existence of 'possibility hunters' is itself a paradox of law: they are composed of pure concepts without substance, yet they can seal their prey in amber of time, making existence itself a footnote to the law.
They're here! "Jin flicked his bone whip, and the fuel rune burned in the air, but was frozen into blue flames at the moment of contact with the flowing light." These are 'possibility hunters' who will attack any existence with' uncertainty '. Xuan, the dust of time on your body is the best target
Xuan felt a pain in his forehead, as the dust of time in the depths of the sea was stirred like silver mercury, projecting the trajectories of hunters in front of him - those trajectories presented perfect geometric shapes, with each curve corresponding to a theorem of the ancient law. He instinctively swung his stone axe and the spark blade split open the first stream of light, only to find that the shattered stream had turned into millions of ice crystals, each reflecting his frozen future: some were displayed as amber specimens in the center of the skeleton, while others were resolved into light bodies and integrated into the ancient skeleton. In the clearest reflection, his pupils were condensing into perfect diamonds.
They are not entities! "Xuan shouted, and the Heavenly Way emblem on the stone axe buzzed," It is the manifestation of the law of time! Every ray of light is a 'correct ending' recognized by ancient times
Use your ancient power! "Jin's bone whip wrapped around the second stream of light, but was instantly frozen into an ice stick, and the blood seeping out of the cracks condensed into ruby like crystals." You have the imprint of ancient times in your body, and only with the power of solidification can you resist solidification
Xuan gritted his teeth, his left arm suddenly crystallized completely, and the dust under his skin condensed into tiny hourglass shapes, with each grain of sand engraved with the ancient symbol of "stillness". He opened his palm, and a matrix of laws composed of ice crystals appeared in the palm, which was a manifestation of ancient power - when the rune took off, all hunters' movements froze for 0.1 breaths, like a precision instrument with a one millionth of a second error.
Right now! "Jin took the opportunity to recall the bone boat, and the fuel runes on the ship's hull lit up again in the gap of stagnation." The core area of the ancient world is in the 'Empty Skeleton Center', where the 'perfect specimens' of all civilizations are sealed, including the' fragments of stillness' of the Pangu Axe. But remember, in the center, any breath with 'changes' will be captured by the' Eye of the Empty Skeleton '- that is a purer existence than the law
The ice crystal bridge forks in front, leading to the burning City of Light on the left and a forest of frozen flames on the right. Xuan chose the right side because he had seen this sea of fire in his memory fragments - it was when Pangu swung his axe for the first time, and the splashing Mars was frozen by ancient times, forming an eternal burning "forest of ashes". Each cluster of flames maintains the most perfect parabolic shape, with the blue and golden flames frozen in the moment when they are about to go out but never go out. Even the smoke produced by combustion is frozen into exquisite spiral crystal clusters.
At the moment of stepping into the forest, Xuan felt a sudden drop in body temperature, as if millions of ice needles were piercing his bone marrow. His boots stepped on frozen tongues, leaving semi transparent footprints on the ground. The dust was absorbing the solidified flame energy, and small flame patterns appeared on the surface of the silver sand film, which was forcibly frozen by the laws of ancient times in the next moment.
Be careful! "Jin suddenly grabbed his wrist, and an ice crystal arrow flew past his hair, nailed to the fire tree in front of him, immediately freezing the entire tree into a deeper blue color. The texture on the bark began to rearrange according to mathematical formulas
Xuan looked up and saw countless diamond shaped light bodies floating in the sky, each reflecting the scene below, but automatically correcting all dynamic existence to a static state. He suddenly remembered the ancient plains in his fragmented memories, those ancestors frozen into amber, whose expressions were forever fixed in smiles or roars, but without any pain - because pain is imperfect and has long been eliminated by ancient laws.
The center of the empty skeleton has arrived. "Jin pointed to a suspended crystal pyramid ahead, which was made up of billions of diamond shaped light bodies pieced together. Each light body was engraved with different civilization symbols, which flowed on the surface of the light body but always maintained absolute symmetry." The fragment of the Pangu axe should be at the top of the pyramid, sealed in the specimen of the 'Pangu initial form' - that is Pangu reshaped by the ancient world according to its own understanding
At the moment of entering the pyramid, Xuan was engulfed in an extreme tranquility, and even his thoughts became slow and clear. There are countless amber coffins displayed in the hall, each containing a "perfect individual" of a certain race: the ancestor with a dragon head and human body, whose scales are arranged in a perfect equilateral triangle; There is an initial spiritual intelligence composed of star sand, and each star sand moves according to the constellation trajectory; There is even a mass of chaotic energy that is solidifying, about to split into perfect yin and yang according to the law. On the deepest platform, a huge amber coffin holds a muscular giant with twisted muscles. His posture is the same as the charging action of Pangu before the opening of the sky, and the direction of his muscle lines conforms to the optimal solution of mechanics. In his hand, he is holding a half stone axe fragment emitting ice crystal light.
That's... Pangu's' perfect specimen ', "Jin's voice trembled as ice crystals formed on the edge of her mask
Xuan approached the amber coffin, and the dust of time surged wildly inside, resonating strongly with the fragments inside the coffin. He saw the ancient inscription engraved on the coffin wall: 'All things should return to their beginning, chaos is the perfect beginning.' When his fingertips touched the coffin wall, the entire pyramid suddenly emitted a buzzing sound, and the diamond shaped light bodies began to rearrange, forming a giant eye covering the entire space in the dome - the consciousness center of the 'ancient skeleton', the eye of the skeleton, with pupils that were absolutely pure white, without any color.
Change... pollution... correction
The mechanical sound exploded in the sea of consciousness, and Xuan felt his body being deciphered, with every cell being scanned and compared to the perfect paradigm. The ice crystals in the left arm began to spread to the heart, and the frequency of the flow of Time Dust was being forced to zero, as if a pair of invisible hands were rearranging his form of existence. Jin quickly threw out his bone whip, and the fuel talisman burned in the giant's eyes, leaving only a slight burn mark on the edge of the pupil, like a tiny flaw on a white jade.
Xuan! Use your ancient power! "Jin shouted, her armor cracking with ice crystals." The ancients cannot understand chaos, only with distorted power can they break analysis - just like melting perfect ice with flames
Xuan gritted his teeth, and his right arm suddenly turned into flesh and blood tentacles. Boiling blood light surged under the scales, forming a sharp contrast with the ice crystals on his left arm. Two powers erupted within his body, tearing open a wound on his chest and revealing the ancient spark burning inside. It was the last spark left in Pan Gu's body, unconstrained by any single law. Taking advantage of the confusion in the analysis of the empty skeleton's eyes, he swung his stone axe and the spark blade to split open the amber coffin. At that moment, the fragments of stillness turned into ice crystals and flowed into his palm. The Pangu patterns on the fragments resonated with the Time Dust in his body, outlining the chaotic scene before Pangu's creation in the depths of the sea of knowledge.
Got the fragments! "Xuan grabbed the ashes and rushed towards the exit, only to find that the light bodies of the pyramid were condensing into solid walls, with each light body turning into sharp ice crystals arranged in a perfect defense matrix." Oh no, the Eye of the Empty Bones is going to seal us here and turn us into new specimens
Using the power of fragments! "Jin's mask had already cracked, revealing half of his face eroded by ice crystals, and the blood at the wound site had condensed into geometric shapes." The fragments of stillness can freeze time, but you have to use it in reverse - let the solidified time flow again, like chiseling a crack in the ice
Xuan suddenly realized and fused the fragments of stillness with the ancient power inside his body, forming a counterclockwise vortex of two extreme forces in his palm. When the vortex contacts the wall of light, the frozen timeline begins to show signs of flow, and spider web like cracks appear on the ice crystal wall. Each crack violates the perfect laws of ancient times, but creates new possibilities. So... the ultimate solidification is another form of flow. "He looked at the chaotic light shining through the cracks and suddenly understood the true meaning of the three ancient origins.
When they rushed out of the pyramid, the entire ancient realm was trembling violently. The giant eye of the Empty Skeleton's Eye is projected into the sky, and trillions of light bodies fall like meteor showers, each ray carrying the ultimate judgment of ancient times. The emergency rune of the Bone Boat was activated by the ashes, and the hull turned into flowing light and collided with the ice crystal bridge. However, just as it was about to leave the ancient world, an ice crystal chain wrapped around Xuan's ankle, engraved with the correction rules of the ancient world.
Xuan! "Jin turned around to save, but was forcibly taken away by the automatic protection mechanism of the Bone Boat. Her voice gradually faded away in the chaos," Go to the ancient times! Fragments cannot exist in two ancient domains at the same time - remember, the key to breaking the solidification is hidden in the chaos of the ancient times
Xuan felt his ankle crystallizing, and the consciousness of the Eye of the Empty Bones surged in like a tide. Whispers of "returning to perfection" and "becoming a specimen" kept echoing in his mind. He suddenly remembered the last sentence of Pangu Totem: 'The three ancient beings share the same origin. Breaking one of them will shake its cocoon.' So, he fused the fragments of stillness with the spark in his heart, and in the moment of crystallization, he erupted with unprecedented power - not confrontation, but acceptance. His body was completely crystallized, but there was a flickering spark in his pupils, which was the indomitable will of ancient times and the key to breaking perfection.
Since you want perfection, then look at the true perfection! "Xuan roared, his voice stirring waves in the ancient world." Perfection is not static, but able to accommodate all possible existence - including the changes you fear the most
The group of light bodies in the Eye of the Empty Bones suddenly stopped, like a precision machine encountering an incalculable variable. They cannot understand why this existence carrying a changing aura now presents a more perfect form than any specimen - both ancient absolute stillness and ancient spark flow, even implying the possibility of ancient chaos. The existence of this contradiction overturns the foundation of ancient laws.
Taking advantage of this gap, Xuan forcefully broke the ice crystal chain and jumped into the chaotic crack. When he opened his eyes again, he found himself falling on the boundary between ancient and modern times, with a boiling river of blood below. The water emitted a mixture of millions of sounds, including the cries of infants and the wild laughter of demons; Above is the ice crystal bridge that is about to collapse, and the axe marks on the bridge deck are being eroded by ancient flesh and blood. The bone boat of ashes is hovering in the distance, and the fuel runes on the ship's side are almost extinguished, like the last light in a storm.
Catch it! "Xuan threw out fragments of stillness, which turned into ice crystals and fell into the bone boat, while he himself fell into the River of Blood. At the moment when he was engulfed by the vortex of flesh and blood, the dust of time and the ancient power merged crazily, and his body began to distort. Ice crystal patterns appeared on his scales, and sparks burned at the ends of his tentacles. However, there was always a little uncontaminated silver sand in his forehead - that was proof of his status as a remnant of time.
In the depths of the Blood River, the core eyeball of the "Eternal Source Mother" suddenly contracted, and this master composed of chaos and flesh felt confusion for the first time. Its tentacles extended towards the dark, but were burned by ice crystals and ignited by sparks at the moment of contact. This special existence not only conforms to the ancient law of distortion, but also violates the disordered nature of chaos, becoming a paradox in the consciousness of the source mother.
On the ancient edge, Jin held the fragment of stillness and looked at the pointer on the bone boat compass that had stabilized again, finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Pangu pattern on the surface of the fragments is resonating with the axe marks on the ship's side, as if telling the truth of the opening of the heavens. But when she saw the mutation in the blood river, her heart rose to her throat again. Xuan... you must not be swallowed up by the ancients, otherwise the balance of the Three Ancient Ones will really be over, "she murmured softly, her fingers unconsciously stroking the prophecy inscription on the bone whip.
At the bottom of the Blood River, Xuan struggles in endless devouring and rebirth. His consciousness split into millions of fragments, each undergoing different distorted forms: some transformed into mechanical and flesh fused monsters, gears and blood vessels coexisting; Some turn into black holes that can devour time, opening up brief moments of stillness in chaos; There's more ... unexpectedly presenting a perfect form of antiquity, yet burning with ancient madness in the eyes, with a smile at the corners of the mouth that does not conform to any paradigm.
I will not be devoured by any of you, "Xuan whispered in the deepest part of his consciousness, as the power of Time Dust and the three fragments merged to form a new form of existence that does not belong to any one of the ages." I am the residue of the three ages and the key to breaking the cocoon. Your laws cannot trap me - because true freedom exists in the cracks of all laws
When the first ray of ancient light penetrated the Blood River, Xuan's body suddenly erupted with a piercing silver light. He rushed out of the river of blood, his body taking on a half crystal, half flesh form, with three pairs of wings growing behind him: the wings of ice crystals shimmering with ancient coldness, the wings of flesh and blood flowing with ancient madness, and the wings of spark burning with ancient indomitable spirit. In his palm, the fragments of stillness and the ancient chaotic power are giving birth to a new form - that is the third possibility to break through solidification and madness, a new path beyond the Three Ancient Laws.
In ancient times, I have come. "Xuanwang looked towards the boiling flesh and blood plain in the distance, where countless distorted cities floated. Each city was transformed through devouring and rebirth, like a living chaotic poem." I want to find the fragments of Pangu Axe in your chaos - not to become your master, but to give all beings the freedom of choice
In the realm of ancient times, the light body group of the Eye of the Empty Bones experienced disorder for the first time. They gazed in the direction of the mysterious disappearance, unable to understand why this existence, which should have been corrected, instead found new possibilities in their laws. This disorder, like the first loose cocoon thread, is laying the first hidden danger for the disintegration of the entire cocoon of time. Perhaps, from the moment Xuan stepped into the ancient world, this universe imprisoned by time had already begun its journey of breaking through its cocoon.
End of Chapter 3