The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 724: Make the sea monsters hand over all the treasures of heaven and earth! Hand them all over!!!

Xuan Yuan and Wenxiu Gong retreated silently.

They retreated further away, to a position where they wouldn't affect Shen Le, but could still clearly see Shen Le's movements and rush to his aid immediately.

Do you want Shen Le to tame this raging energy? Do you want it to become docile, gentle, and easy to absorb?
Even if the price is that this energy is weakened by half, two-thirds, or even one-tenth?

Of course I want to! Who would want to risk their life every time they try to advance, risking death nine times out of ten?

Who wants to watch their children, grandchildren, and most promising descendants explode into blood and gore, leaving no trace of their remains?

—Of course, it would be even better if Shen Le could leave a gap in the rift when sorting through these energies, allowing them to risk their lives to try and break through when all hope is lost…

Is Shen Le confident?

What is he doing?
When will he make his move?
Shen Le was still a long way from making a move. He sat cross-legged, pressing Yun Kun against his chest with both arms, between his arms and thighs, not allowing it any room to move around.
Then, he closed his eyes, extended his mental energy, and continued to probe the edge of the rift:

...Very good, it is indeed part of the barrier between heaven and earth. Although it is severely damaged, and even the remaining parts feel brittle and could collapse at any moment;
However, he was still able to discern the individual warp and weft threads, the intricate "embroidery" on the fabric, and the finer structures that make up the fabric.

Those endless, layered runes...

"Block," "ban," "sever," "protect"...

"Guiding", "controlling", "separating", "precipitating"...

There are also the five elements (metal, wood, water, fire, earth), light and darkness, wind and magnetism, space and time, and all sorts of unique energies between heaven and earth...

"Sigh... Does it mean that the greater one's ability, the higher the requirements become for repairing the barrier between heaven and earth...?"

I remember when I used to repair these things, all I had to do was twist the energy into lines, connect them, and straighten the lines..."

Shen Le sighed silently, trying his best to decipher the runes. Sadly, he could only recognize less than ten percent of them, and most of that was thanks to the copper plate giving him a power boost, forcefully imbuing him with the meaning of the runes.
From recognizing the runes to being able to draw them, there's probably a distance as long as the Great Wall stretching from east to west. As for assembling the runes into lines, then weaving those lines into fabric to cover this rift in the heavens and earth…

"No problem, let's do it!"

For anyone else, with so many runes, there's nowhere to learn them or even see them!
Right now, we'll compile these runes into a book and recruit people from the Special Affairs Bureau, as well as from all cultivation sects and independent cultivators in China. The condition is that they bring their own food and come here to help repair the barrier between heaven and earth...

Believe it or not, people who get wind of the situation will fight tooth and nail to get a job!
Shen Le mentally prepared himself, starting with the seemingly simplest runes. Of the five elements—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—he chose the "earth" rune first, sketching it repeatedly.

One horizontal stroke...

One horizontal stroke...

One horizontal line after another...

He didn't know how many times he had used his mental power to draw, when suddenly, the entire world around him moved simultaneously. No, not the world, but the black mountain range beneath the sea—the cave where he was sitting.

The cave trembled slightly. The stone ground beneath Shen Le's knees, where he sat cross-legged, gave him a soft, warm, and elastic feeling.

No, it wasn't an illusion; the stone ground itself began to flow, gently lifting him upwards.

Some parts protrude, some parts sag, fitting snugly around his body, allowing him to sit comfortably without any effort to maintain his posture.

With another thought, the stone transformed from an armchair into a comfortable recliner, and then into a large bed with pillows.

The bed was even the perfect balance of firmness and softness, supporting his lumbar spine, comparable to the best latex mattress he had ever experienced...

Very good, continue!
Shen Le took a deep breath and continued to outline the remaining runes. Water, wood, and metal emerged one by one, taking shape at his fingertips:
First came the sound of gurgling water, which quietly emerged from the dry underwater cave created by his mental power dispelling the seawater.

Instead of collapsing and rushing in, the seawater gently swirled around Shen Le's feet, gathering into a small, clear spring that emitted a damp coolness in the cave.

The wood-shaped script followed closely behind, and wherever it passed, the entire dark and deep canyon trembled slightly.

A fresh and vibrant energy swept across the surroundings, causing the entire seawater to ripple gently and almost instantly change color. Xuan Yuan didn't feel anything yet, but the coral on the embroidered male's back seemed to gain a new vitality:
Amidst the coral reefs, tender yellow and emerald green leaves quietly unfurled. Tentacles of all sizes poked their heads out, struggling and grasping at the newly emerging life in the seawater.

On Shen Le's lap, Yun Kun, which had been curled up in the water barrier, now had a wooden hull that was more compact and smooth, allowing it to rock comfortably for a couple of moments.

The character "金" (gold) carries sharpness and resilience, adding a framework to the entire cave structure, making it more stable and refined.
Shen Le failed to draw the character for "fire" more than ten times before he was able to balance its intense dynamism with its explosive and destructive instincts.

As the rune finally leaped out and golden-red flames ignited out of thin air, even Xuan Yuan and Wenxiu Gong, who were watching from afar, instinctively shrank back.

"That... is so strong..."

It's far superior to any underwater lava or volcano they've ever seen in their long lives... Hopefully it won't explode... If it does...

Well, if it explodes, it seems they have no other option but to run away...

Shen Le felt a slight surge of joy as he gently controlled the power of the five elements at his fingertips. These runes were far superior to his previous methods of controlling the power of the five elements.
Previously, he used his mental power to perceive, resonate with, discuss, and plead with them for cooperation. But now, these five runes are the supreme command of the monarch—

Wherever they went, none dared disobey!

But that's just the foundation, like the simplest bricks, not even enough to form complex components to build a giant barrier separating heaven and earth.

Shen Le steadied himself and began to try more complex runes:
The first thing we tried was, of course, the most intuitive character: "封" (seal).

If the structure of the Five Elements runes is only as difficult as the Eight Trigrams or Oracle Bone Script, then the character “封” feels like a circuit on a chip, or at least a precision circuit board.

Shen Le's fingertips twitched only twice before stopping abruptly, switching to mental drawing instead:

No, that won't work. The strokes are too dense, with too many twists and turns, and they're three-dimensional runes—you simply can't draw them with your fingers—it has to be mental power, only mental power!

The hair-thick lines of spiritual energy, under Shen Le's command, constantly twisted and turned, carefully depicting the lines on the barrier between heaven and earth that he had previously observed.

Every stroke, every turn, is infinitely delicate and light, like carving a diamond with a fine needle, with a heavy brick hanging below the eye of the needle.

Sweat streamed down Shen Le's forehead, his hands clenched tightly together, his fingertips almost deformed. One failure, two failures, three failures…

Outside the cave, soft explosions continued to ring out, and even flashes of lightning streaked across the dark canyon.

Xuan Yuan and Wenxiu Gong looked up and retreated continuously:

"What is he doing...? Wasn't he supposed to be regulating his energy? Why does it feel like he's getting more and more violent..."

"Should we stop him? This place feels like it could explode at any moment..."

But it was too late to rush up and stop them now—not to mention, those bolts of lightning instilled a primal fear in them just by looking at them from afar, making them too afraid to charge forward…

Fortunately, Shen Le's attempts were not stopped. He focused his mind and tried again and again.

Fortunately, after advancing to the next level, his mental strength improved significantly, with both his calculation ability and concentration greatly enhanced.

After countless attempts, Shen Le finally succeeded in sketching a complete "sealing" character.

In an instant, the violent energy flow that had been rushing into the canyon like a whirlwind visibly slowed down for a moment!
Even if it was only for a brief moment, even if the energy flow surged past with even greater force the next second, this instantaneous pause still caused Xuan Yuan and Wenxiu Gong to tremble violently.

efficient!

It really works!

"Did you memorize that rune just now?"

Xuan Yuan slapped the rock beside him with his tail and asked quietly. Wenxiu scratched the rock with her claws, making a loud crunching sound.

"I can't remember... how is it possible to remember? It's too hard! Too hard!"

If Shen Le could repeat it a few more times... Unfortunately, Shen Le's speed of repeating the strokes increased, and the light emanating from the rune lines became weaker and weaker, more and more hidden.

Not to mention, Shen Le's speed in mastering subsequent runes was also rapidly increasing. It was as if, after mastering the first one, these complex three-dimensional runes were no longer a problem for him:
The character “ban” follows the character “seal” and is used to create an energy void in this small area, or at least to deprive it of energy activity.
The character “绝” supports the character “禁”, severing the resonance between energies and preventing them from snowballing and growing larger.
The character “protect” is added to other runes, increasing their strength.

"Guiding", "precipitation", "separation"...

More and more support runes lit up around Shen Le, at the entrance of the cave, and in the canyon. Finally, Shen Le stood up and walked forward step by step.

The stone walls and pillars at the cave entrance undulated gently, making way for him, while scattered runic light surrounded him, swirling around him and connecting with each other according to his will:

The five elements are connected to form a circle of mutual generation and restraint, one link after another, quickly weaving a long thread.

Shen Le raised his hand and pushed forward, and the silk threads naturally floated forward, connecting to the broken part of the barrier between heaven and earth.

These runes, representing matter, naturally absorb the torrent of energy rushing in from the other side of the barrier, forming solid meridians:
Meanwhile, runes such as “seal,” “prohibit,” “sever,” and “protect” are interconnected in a more complex pattern, forming latitude lines that constantly weave through the longitude lines, constraining matter into a regular pattern.

The runes such as "Guide," "Sediment," and "Separation" are like living stars, outlining even more intricate embroidery patterns on this fabric woven from warp and weft threads...

Shen Le's spiritual power, like the tip of a pen, a shuttle, and an embroidery needle, surged rapidly at the gap in the barrier between heaven and earth.

The drawing, the pulling, the entanglement, guides the creation of symbols in the void, and then they intertwine in a regular pattern.

The parallels of latitude and longitude intersect, and the runes at the nodes shimmer with light, connecting and resonating with each other to form a small, stable energy grid unit.

Then came two units, three units, four units...

Shen Le focused intently, unleashing his spiritual power to guide the grid woven from rune threads, slowly taking shape at the edge of the massive rift between heaven and earth.

This net, at first, was so fragile that it seemed it would collapse at the slightest touch, constantly swaying back and forth with the torrent pouring in from the other side;
However, it remained firmly bound to the remaining threads at the edge of the crack, never breaking. Not only that, it greedily absorbed the power surging from the opposite side, strengthening itself:

As Shen Le wove the grid, it slowly but steadily expanded outwards. In the area it covered, the violent energy flow was forcibly sorted and filtered, gradually becoming calmer.

Some of the energy rushing in from the opposite side was settled and left in one grid after another, and the impact was temporarily neutralized.

Immediately afterwards, this energy was transferred to the second grid, where the pure and gentle energy was separated from the violent and mixed energy;
The gentle ones were drawn into the barrier itself, strengthening its power; the violent ones were returned outside the barrier; and a small portion of them entered this world through the gaps in the grid.

Any energy exceeding the grid's capacity to process is firmly blocked outside the grid by runes that are "sealed," "forbidden," and "absolute"...

Xuan Yuan and Wenxiu Gong were stunned and trembled with excitement.

Shen Le did it! He really did it!

Although the tear hadn't been patched up yet, and only a tiny bit had been patched, the once raging, blood-red energy at the newly patched edge of the crack had truly become docile and gentle!
Although it's much less, perhaps only one-tenth, that extremely high energy is precisely the life-giving rain for their ascension!
"He succeeded...he really succeeded...how long can he hold on? Can he finish?"

"I'm going back right now!" Xuan Yuan slammed his fist against the cliff face, turned, and plunged into the depths of the canyon. The raging torrent carried his voice far and wide.

"I'll bring as many rare and precious treasures as there are in the world! We must help him hold on! We must help him hold on until this hole is repaired!"

"Take mine too!" Wenxiu Gong broke off a piece of coral from his back and threw it forcefully into the water:
"Tell them to bring it all, however much they have! If they refuse, I'll personally go and take it from them after Mr. Shen finishes his work!"

(End of this chapter)