pjbooks Chapter 435 7 Days
Chapter 435 7 Days
After that layer of existence appeared, Su Fan sat quietly on the city wall for seven consecutive days.
He didn't deliberately observe it, analyze it, or try to understand it.
Every morning, he would squat by the edge of the stack, bite into a steamed bun, place his left palm up on his knee, and sense the layer that existed quietly at the very bottom of all colors and temperatures.
The layer of existence remained unchanged for seven days.
It neither thickens nor thins, neither moves nor remains still; it simply stays there.
On the evening of the seventh day, Su Fan sat on the city wall and watched the sunset, then looked down at his palm.
That layer still exists, just as thin and still as it was on the first day.
But he noticed that the existing surface seemed to have an extra, extremely thin, and shallow layer of something.
It's not attached to it; it's a layer that grows on its own surface.
That layer is thinner than existence itself, so thin that it is almost immeasurable.
But he sensed its presence—it was a very faint layer of law-like texture.
The texture is extremely simple, with only a straight, thin line running across the entire palm.
The line is located at the very bottom of all colors and temperatures, on the surface of the layer in question.
The thin line is neither bright nor dark, neither cold nor hot; it simply exists there.
"That layer of existence sprouted a law-like pattern this afternoon."
The sound of the Ruins came from the direction of the Ruins Crack, carrying a calm sense of confirmation.
"The nature and existence of texture are consistent with itself—no color, no temperature, no shape change."
But it is a pattern of laws.
It is generated spontaneously on the surface of the existing layer.
After staying there for seven days, the first basic pattern of the law grew on its surface.
That pattern was the first of all the law-related patterns to appear on the surface of the existence layer.
It appears below all other laws of texture, color, and temperature, on the foundational layer of all laws' structures.
Its existence indicates that the laws themselves are growing from the surface of the layer of existence.
Su Fan turned his left hand over and looked at the extremely faint line.
The direction of the line was completely parallel to the callus on his palm that had originally been worn from the handle of the Pangu Axe.
The two lines are separated by a whole seven-layered superimposed structure, twelve patterned rings, a pure silver layer, a transparent memory layer, and everything else, running parallel to each other between the bottom and top layers of the law structure.
The newly grown thin line at the bottom and the oldest line on the outermost layer of his palm formed a parallel relationship corresponding to each other in the space of laws.
"The newly grown law patterns are the most basic structural forms of the laws."
Xu squatted on the edge of the White Rock Terrace, his right hand pressed against his chest, sensing for a very long time before finally pulling it out.
"It is different from the twelve-ring pattern."
The twelve lines are data markings of the emotional responses of life forms in the old domain; they are textures with content.
The newly grown thin line contains no content.
It is merely the most basic form of the law's structure itself—a straight line.
It represents how the law manifests in its purest form.
There is no additional information, no semantics, no emotion, no warmth.
It's just a line.
All more complex patterns and textures gradually emerge from this basic line form.
Su Fan squatted by the city wall, quietly sensing the basic fine line.
The thin line was long enough to cover the entire width of his palm.
The two ends of the line naturally converge at the edge of the palm, without extending beyond the boundary of the palm.
The entire line is extremely straight and uniform, without any bends or undulations.
After sensing for a long time, he discovered that the layer of existence left an extremely thin blank area on both sides of the thin line.
The width of the blank area is the same as the width of the thin line, as if the law itself has deliberately reserved space for its existence when it grows out.
He stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, and walked to the White Rock Terrace.
As he crouched at the edge of the crack and reached out to touch the halo on the seed's surface, the instant his fingertips touched the surface, a basic law texture appeared in the seed's surface structure, perfectly parallel to the thin line on his palm.
The texture is located at the very bottom of all the laws of the seed, below all the engravings.
The texture at the very bottom of the seed's surface and the fine line at the very bottom of his palm formed a mirror image in the space of laws.
"Basic law patterns have also simultaneously grown in the core of the old domain."
Xu squatted on the other side of the crack, his fingertips gleaming with a layer of law-based light that was exactly the same as the fine lines on his palm.
"It is located on the surface of the original law structure at the bottom layer of the old domain core."
The direction of the lines is exactly the same as the direction of the fine lines on your palm.
The basic law textures appeared simultaneously in six places.
It wasn't a matter of one transmitting to another; rather, the six layers of existence simultaneously grew the same fundamental structure of laws.
Each layer of existence simultaneously completed its first expression of the law at its respective location.
Su Fan withdrew his hand from the surface of the seed.
He walked back to the city wall and squatted down by the crenellations.
The sky had completely darkened, and the five-colored halo in the direction of the Ruins of Return shone steadily in the night.
He turned his left hand over and looked at the extremely faint basic line on his palm, which was almost invisible in the night, but he could sense it.
That thin line exists quietly at the very bottom of all colors and all temperatures.
It has no color, so it is not affected by changes in light.
It has no temperature, so it does not change with the temperature difference between day and night.
It was just a most basic and primal law pattern quietly existing on the surface of the layer of existence in his palm.
"Will it continue to grow after it grows out?" A Dou asked, squatting at the foot of the city wall and looking up.
"meeting."
The sound of the ruins traveled through the night from the direction of the crack in the ruins and landed at the edge of the ramparts.
"After the first basic law texture grows on the surface of the existence layer, that texture will become the starting point for the growth of all subsequent laws."
In the future, a second, third, and fourth basic texture will grow next to it.
All the base textures are arranged in parallel on the surface of the existing layer.
Once enough basic textures have grown, they will interact with each other in a very subtle way.
The product of interaction is a more complex structure of rules.
More complex structures will extend upwards from the growth surface of the base texture.
The direction of extension is from the surface of the existence layer upwards, passing through the pure silver layer, the transparent memory layer, the silver-gray data layer, the five-color mixed layer, the silver-white temperature-sensitive layer, and the purple-gold engraving layer, all the way to the outermost layer of your palm.
It connects all the layers together, forming a complete vertical transmission system of laws.
Su Fan placed his left hand on his knee. "How long will it take?"
"have no idea."
Ruins say.
"The speed of texture generation and the speed of twelve-line ring generation are two independent processes."
The generation of the ring depends on the repair speed of the reverberant node.
The growth of the base texture depends on the activity of the fundamental laws of the existing layer itself.
The two processes do not affect each other.
The base texture may grow slowly over a long period of time, or it may enter a rapid growth phase after a certain point in time.
Currently, there is no data available to predict its growth curve.
It's too new.
Even the core of the old domain has never recorded similar laws or phenomena.
There has never been a precedent in the history of primordial law-based life forms for law-based patterns growing from the surface of a pure existence layer.
Everything about it is unknown.
Su Fan stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, and walked back to the weapons shop.
He lay on the wooden bed with his left hand on his chest.
Even in the darkness of night, he could still clearly perceive that basic, thin line.
It doesn't emit light, but it's there.
It can exist without light.
That's probably what makes it different from all the other layers.
The other layers require light to be seen.
It is not necessary.
It grows out of the layer of existence, so it is itself a form of expression of existence.
Whether you see it or not, it's there.
He closed his eyes and fell asleep peacefully, enveloped in the presence of that basic, fine line.
After that basic fine line grew on the surface of the existence layer, the first thing Su Fan did every morning when he woke up was to turn his left hand over and look at it.
On the first day, there was still only one thin thread.
The next morning, a second line appeared next to the first one, parallel to the first one, with the same spacing and width as the blank areas on both sides of the first line.
The third one appeared on the morning of the third day.
The fourth course on the morning of the fourth day.
The fine lines continued to grow at a rate of one per day, and each new fine line was perfectly parallel to all the previous fine lines, with perfectly equal spacing and the same length.
On the morning of the ninth day, nine parallel lines of the fundamental laws had appeared on the surface of the palm of Su Fan's left hand.
Nine fine lines are evenly distributed on the surface of the existence layer, extending from one side of the palm to the other, covering about one-third of the surface area of the existence layer.
There was no interaction between the nine thin lines, and no more complex rules or structures were generated.
They are simply a row of parallel basic textures quietly resting on the surface of the existence layer.
But Su Fan noticed that the width of the blank areas on both sides of each thin line was not exactly the same.
The blank areas on both sides of the first line are still the same width as when it first grew out, but the blank areas between the second and third lines are slightly narrower than those on both sides of the first line.
The blank area between the fourth and fifth lanes has narrowed a little bit more.
The closer the fine lines are to the center of the palm, the narrower the spacing between them; the closer they are to the edge, the wider the spacing between them.
The spacing on the surface of the existing layer forms a gradient distribution that gradually narrows from both ends toward the center.
"The spacing between the base textures is constantly adjusting itself."
That morning, Xu didn't squat on the edge of the crevice; instead, he walked directly to the edge of the city wall and squatted down next to Su Fan, pulling his right hand out from his chest and spreading it out.
Nine parallel fine lines also appeared on the surface of the existence layer on his palm, with the spacing gradient exactly the same as that on his palm.
The spacing adjustment is proactive.
It's not external pressure or environmental stress; it's that each fine line adjusts its distance automatically after sensing the presence of adjacent fine lines during its growth process.
They don't want to be too far apart, nor do they want to be too close; they are searching for the optimal symbiotic distance.
After the distance between the first and ninth lines is basically fixed, the seven thin lines in the middle automatically allocate the remaining space.
The principle of allocation is to ensure that the intensity of the law-induced magnetic field between any two adjacent lines is uniformly distributed.
Su Fan flipped his left hand over and then back over to look at it several times.
The gradient of spacing between the nine fine lines is almost invisible in the morning light, but they do exist.
The spacing between the lines gradually narrows from the edge of the palm towards the center in an extremely gentle and uniform manner, like a set of naturally arranged scale lines calibrating their own position on the surface of the existence layer.
When he reached out and touched the halo on the seed's surface, nine parallel basic textures appeared in the seed's surface layer, with the spacing gradient perfectly matching that of his palm.
The same arrangement appeared at the bottom layer of the old domain core.
The same nine parallel fine lines grow synchronously in six locations, with all of them having the same spacing gradient.
"Will these thin lines keep increasing?" A Dou walked up from the base of the city wall and squatted on the other side.
"meeting."
Ruins say.
"Based on the current rate of one layer per day, it will take about twenty more days for the surface of the layer to be completely covered by parallel fine lines."
After the covering was completed, all the blank areas on the surface were filled with fine lines.
At that time, the surface of the layer will be a whole layer of parallel, uniformly distributed texture.
The texture layers have the same direction, spacing, depth, and length.
All the basic fine lines will form a complete law-based field after the coverage is completed.
The field itself is uniform.
No two locations are denser or sparser than one another.
Su Fan brought his left hand together and then opened it again.
The nine parallel lines did not fold or shift when he closed his palms; they simply adjusted their curvature naturally with the curve of his palms, remaining parallel even when his palms were closed.
After they opened, they returned to their straight shape.
They maintain a parallel structural relationship as the shape of the palm changes.
It's as if they've learned to deform along with the palm-shaped structure.
On the morning of the twentieth day, when Su Fan woke up, there were already twenty parallel fine lines on the surface of the palm of his left hand.
The fine lines cover approximately two-thirds of the surface area of the existence layer.
The spacing gradient is continuously and automatically adjusted as the number of fine lines increases.
The spacing between the fine lines in the central area has been narrowed to about one-third of the original edge spacing, while the spacing between the fine lines in the edge areas has maintained its original width.
The spacing distribution across the entire surface of the existence layer forms a gradient field that decreases uniformly from the edge to the center.
Those twenty fine lines are arranged on the surface of the existence layer into an extremely regular scale of laws.
That morning, Xu squatted quietly next to Su Fan, looking at the twenty parallel thin lines in his palm.
After sensing for a long time, he said something.
"After the twentieth fine line grew out, an extremely subtle connection of laws was formed between the first and last fine lines."
The direction of the connecting line is perpendicular to all the parallel fine lines, and it appears on the surface of the existence layer near the center of the palm.
The length of the line covers the entire width from the first to the twentieth lane.
It spans all the fine lines, connecting the twenty parallel lines in the space between the first and last lines to form a complete grid.
The grid consists of twenty parallel lines crossed by a vertical line.
The appearance of vertical lines changes the relationship between the thin lines.
Now they are no longer a row of separate parallel lines; they are part of a grid.
Su Fan turned his left hand over and examined it carefully.
There is indeed an extra, extremely thin vertical line near the center of the palm.
The direction of the line is perpendicular to all the parallel thin lines, and its length just covers the entire width from the first line to the twentieth line.
No additional regularity phenomena are generated at the intersections of the vertical lines and each parallel line.
There is no light, no heat, and no change in shape at the intersection.
However, the existence of the intersection itself creates a rule-based connection between the twenty parallel lines.
The intersection adds an extremely thin and stable path for the transmission of laws between each pair of adjacent parallel lines.
The direction of the transmission path is along the vertical line from the first path to the twentieth path, passing through all intersections.
The resistance value is the same for each conduction path.
Vertical lines ensure that each parallel line can maintain constant communication at the level of law through intersections and adjacent lines.
"Vertical lines are the first step in the growth of a regular grid."
Xu pulled his right hand out from his chest and spread it out. A vertical line appeared in the center of the twenty parallel thin lines on his palm.
"The emergence of vertical lines signifies that the laws governing the growth of surface layers have transitioned from one-dimensional to two-dimensional."
Previously, all the base textures were arranged parallel to each other in one direction, without any vertical connection.
Vertical lines are added to create vertical connections, connecting parallel lines to form a grid.
The grid has two directions: horizontal and vertical.
Next, more vertical lines will grow on the surface of the existing layer, refining the mesh.
Once the mesh is fully formed, the surface of the existing layer will possess the basic framework to support more complex law-based structures.
Su Fan stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, and walked to the White Rock Terrace.
When he crouched at the edge of the crack and reached out to touch the halo on the seed's surface, the same vertical line appeared in the seed's surface layer.
The twenty parallel thin lines are connected in the center by a horizontal vertical line to form a grid.
The exact same grid appeared at the bottom layer of the old domain core.
The same basic framework of the grid grew synchronously in six locations.
The grid orientation, spacing, and depth are completely consistent at every location.
It's as if the same grid of laws was simultaneously engraved on the surface of the existence layer at six different locations.
"Will the grid remain encrypted?" A Dou asked, squatting down beside him.
"meeting."
Ruins say.
"The number of vertical lines will continue to increase, dividing the existing twenty parallel lines into smaller cells."
Once the density of vertical lines and the density of parallel lines reach a certain ratio, the grid will enter a stable state of law resonance.
At that time, the fundamental field of laws existing on the surface layer will be complete.
A complete law grid can provide a unified growth base for higher-level law structures.
All the more complex, rule-based structures that grow from the base grid automatically arrange themselves according to the grid's rhythm and spacing.
Su Fan brought his left hand together and then opened it again.
A grid of twenty parallel lines and one vertical line existed in his palm in an extremely stable manner.
The grid bent as his palm bent and straightened as his palm opened.
The mesh maintains its structural integrity in the face of changes in external shape.
He squatted quietly by the city wall, sensing that the grid of laws on the surface of that layer of existence maintained its basic field steadily through the arrangement of twenty parallel lines and one vertical line.
The grid will continue to be encrypted.
The number of vertical lines will continue to increase.
The parallel lines will continue to grow.
But they will continue to grow towards completeness at the same slow, steady, and unstoppable pace as before.
The number of vertical lines continued to increase at a steady rate of one per day in the following days.
On the twenty-fifth day, six vertical lines appeared on the surface of the layer, dividing the twenty parallel thin lines into seven vertical cells.
Each cell has the same width.
The spacing between the vertical lines remains completely consistent from the first to the sixth line.
Parallel thin lines and perpendicular lines do not produce any additional regularity phenomena at their intersections, but the presence of intersections increases the overall regularity transmission efficiency of the grid by several times compared to when there is only one perpendicular line.
Each time a new vertical line is added, the law field of the entire grid will be fine-tuned once, in the direction of making the law resistance values of all cells tend to be completely consistent.
On the thirtieth day, the number of parallel fine lines on the surface of the layer increased to thirty, and the number of vertical lines increased to eleven.
The intersections of thirty parallel lines and eleven perpendicular lines form three hundred and thirty connection points of laws on the surface of the entire palm.
The connection points are evenly distributed at every intersection of the grid, and all connection points exist stably with the same resistance value according to the same rule.
The overall structure of the grid reached a very stable equilibrium after thirty days—the density ratio of parallel and perpendicular lines ensured that the resistance value of each cell was exactly the same, with no cell having a higher or lower resistance value than another cell.
The grid as a whole is in a state of uniform lawful resonance.
"The mesh is now complete."
The sounds of the market that day carried a sense of reassurance and calm.
"After the intersection of the thirtieth parallel line and the eleventh perpendicular line is generated, the mesh completes self-closure on the surface of the existence layer."
After being closed, the overall law field of the grid automatically enters a uniform resonance mode.
Uniform resonance implies that the fundamental field of the laws existing on the surface of the layer already possesses all the conditions to support the growth of more complex law structures.
The density and resistance of the basic mesh have reached an optimal ratio, and any more complex rule-based structure can begin to grow under the same conditions at any location on the mesh.
Su Fan turned his left hand over and looked at the surface of the existence layer in his palm.
Thirty parallel fine lines and eleven vertical fine lines are evenly distributed across the entire palm area, forming a highly regular grid of rules.
Each cell in the grid is a rectangle of equal size.
Each intersection maintains a stable resistance value according to the same rule.
The entire grid was almost invisible in the morning light, but he could clearly perceive its complete structure through the perception of laws.
The grid exists quietly at the bottom of all colors and temperatures, serving as a unified growth base for all higher-level laws and structures.
He stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, walked to the White Rock Terrace, and squatted at the edge of the crack.
When you reach out and touch the halo on the seed's surface, you'll find that the seed's surface layer also has a grid of exactly thirty parallel lines and eleven vertical lines.
The same complete grid appeared at the lowest level of the old domain core.
All six locations simultaneously possessed complete foundational fields of laws.
"What will happen next after the grid is complete?" A Dou asked, squatting down beside him.
"Next, the first vertical growth lines will begin to grow on the mesh surface."
Xu pulled his right hand out from his chest and spread it out. A layer of extremely thin and fine new law structure began to appear on the complete grid surface of the thirty parallel lines and eleven vertical lines in his palm.
The growth lines are perpendicular to the grid plane and extend upwards from each intersection.
The extension is extremely short, currently less than one ten-thousandth the diameter of a single human hair.
However, the existence of growth lines proves that the mesh has successfully transitioned from a two-dimensional planar structure to a three-dimensional spatial structure.
The growth lines will continue to grow upwards simultaneously from all intersections, and their length will gradually increase.
Once the growth lines reach a sufficient height, they will form lateral connections, creating new law layers between the existing layers and the layers of existence.
The new law layers will be arranged in parallel with the existing seven-layer superimposed structure.
They will grow upwards from the grid surface of the existence layer, eventually reaching the primordial law texture on the outermost layer of the palm.
At that time, the entire palm's law structure will change from the current seven layers to a complete law layering system with eight, nine, ten, or even more layers.
Each layer maintains a connection to the grid at the level of laws, and each layer continuously grows its own law-based texture based on the grid's foundation.
Su Fan placed his left hand on his knee and quietly sensed the vertical growth lines that were just beginning to grow on the surface of the grid.
The growth lines are extremely short and fine, so fine that they are almost indistinguishable individually.
However, he can confirm their existence through the overall field changes perceived by the laws.
They extend upwards simultaneously from 330 intersections, continuously increasing in length by a tiny margin each day.
The amount of growth each day is almost immeasurable, but over time they will gradually grow into a whole new layer of laws.
That new layer will grow upwards from the surface of the existence layer over a long period of time in the future, passing through the pure silver layer, the transparent memory layer, the silver-gray data layer, the five-color mixed layer, the silver-white temperature-sensitive layer, and the purple-gold engraving layer, eventually merging with the callus lines on the outermost layer of the palm.
At that time, his palm will transform from seven layers into a complete layered structure of laws.
Each layer is a product that has grown on its own over many years of operation.
The bottom layer is the existence layer, and the top layer is the original callus pattern worn from the handle of Pangu's axe.
All the layers in the middle grew out of themselves during the continuous coexistence of the primordial wilderness and the old domain.
All the layers are connected together via a grid.
It is interconnected from top to bottom and seamlessly connected from beginning to end.
This forms a complete vertical system of laws.