The old things I repaired have become fine

Chapter 725 Repair progress 99% — Oh no, will it crash?!

Xuan Yuan swung her tail and fins to accelerate, swimming wildly away. The roaring water crashed against her back. As she swam, she sensed the changing energy of heaven and earth behind her, and couldn't help but feel anxious.
The primordial energy of heaven and earth, having been refined and filtered, was indeed a little gentler and a little purer. However, just as the current of seawater suddenly increases when the mouth of a canyon narrows—

The more that massive rift is repaired, the stronger the force that erupts from it will be. As the rift closes to half its original size, then to just a third, a fifth, or even less...

Can Shen Le withstand it?

Although one could sense that he was indeed an extremely powerful cultivator, and although there were cliffs and stone walls protecting him from the outside, but...

be quick!

We need to hurry up and urge everyone to hand over all the rare and precious items they can to Mr. Shen, so that he can at least get some more help—maybe he's just missing this one bite?

The colossal body, like a torpedo, hurtled towards the plaza, towards the mirage. Even before it arrived, Xuan Yuan's booming voice echoed far and wide, carried by the current:

"Ink Shadow Lord! Phantom Moon Princess! Bring out all the treasures of heaven and earth! Everything that can be eaten! Everything that can be drunk! Everything that can be absorbed! Bring it all out!"

"Mr. Shen is helping us repair the Dragon Gate, making its power gentler and more compliant, so that the children won't die piece by piece! Hurry up! I'm going to get my and Master Wenxiu's collection!"

The light and shadow cast by the coral branch swayed in the center of the mirage, creating a colorful spectacle. Xuan Yuan used all his strength to throw the coral branch, making it clear and unambiguous for everyone to see.

Then, propelled by immense water pressure, it surged forward towards its nest:
fast!
Hurry up!

The faster we go, the more we can help Mr. Shen, and helping him is helping ourselves!
It crashed headfirst into a large coral reef, darting left and right. Instead of opening the door little by little as usual, it swung its tail and raised its head, directly smashing open the place where it kept its treasures.

It opened its enormous mouth, swallowed everything inside, and then turned and left.

It knew a shortcut that could quickly get it to the vicinity of Dragon Gate, and deliver the first batch of spiritual items there first!
Shen Le was completely focused on repairing the barrier between heaven and earth, and did not notice the actions of the two great demons at all.

Seeing that the connecting threads had extended to about one-tenth of the crack, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, closed his eyes slightly, and relaxed his tense mind.

Before he could even enter meditation, there was a sudden "thump" outside, followed by a series of crackling and popping sounds, and then Yun Kun's shouting:
"Boss! That big fish threw things in! Lots! So flashy! So...uh, so messy..."

Shen Le reluctantly opened his eyes. There was not a drop of water in the stone cave. Two small fish, as clear as crystal and with their internal organs and bones clearly visible, were splashing around on the ground.

Besides the small fish, there were a few seashells, two crystal-clear stone flowers, a few rolling pearls, and two clumps of seaweed tangled together.

Xuan Yuan swam around outside the cave. When he saw Shen Le looking over, he quickly patted the cave entrance with his fish tail.

"Mr. Shen! These are all edible! Very nutritious! Very nutritious! If you're tired, have some, and I'll get you more! Don't worry about not having enough; I'll bring you all the good stuff from the entire market!"

With a whoosh, it shot off again and disappeared. Shen Le spread his mental energy, sensing its rapid departure from the canyon, and shook his head:
Why do you think I can just pick up a seaweed and gnaw on it, or pick up a small fish and put it in my mouth?
Those seashells and seaweed don't really look like things that can be eaten directly...

"Never mind, it's all from the heart." He closed his eyes slightly, and the stone chamber moved and deformed according to his wishes, creating several grooves to categorize and store the things Xuan Yuan had thrown in.

Those belonging to the water element have the character for "water" which represents water, immersing fish in it;

For seaweed, there are characters combining the radical for "wood" and the radical for "water," providing them with abundant life...

After arranging everything one by one, he reached out and touched the boat in his arms:

"Yun Kun, do me a favor and get me some food and drink—I took these out of the secret realm specifically to replenish my energy. Take a batch out and keep them with me!"

【Here we go! 】

Yun Kun responded loudly. It only needed to relay the message, while the paper figures, the skirt-wearing figures, as well as Zhong Xiaomei and Huang Yutong, busied themselves rummaging through boxes and cabinets, organizing things to pass on the message.

Shen Le took a bamboo tube and gulped down a mouthful of bamboo marrow dew. He felt as if he had been cleansed from head to toe, from body to soul, and let out a comfortable sigh.

"what……"

So cool!

Invigorated!

Keep working!

Wenxiu Gong, lying prone outside the cave, peered out, ready to rescue Shen Le at any moment and carry her away at any time:

"..."

This Mr. Shen is incredibly wealthy!
Even from such a distance, the food and drinks that were just taken out of the cave shone with a spiritual light, making the seawater appear to shimmer with iridescent colors!

He hadn't seen it many times in his thousand-year lifespan, so he was reluctant to eat it or use it. He would carefully preserve even the smallest amount he obtained, only taking it out when he was breaking through tribulations!

So...should he bring out his collection?

Embroidered Dog scratched the stone wall in annoyance, then quickly withdrew its claws, afraid of making a sound and disturbing Shen Le.

Forget it, let's just take it out. Regardless of Shen Le's motives for patching up the hole in Longmen, it's always the sea monsters who benefit...

They didn't need to do this job in the first place!
Having made up its mind, it quietly lay down again, retracting its eight sharp claws, silently breathing and gathering its strength. Inside the cave, Shen Le, having eaten and drunk his fill, sat cross-legged and entered a meditative state:
In the far, far distance, at the edge of the Dragon Gate Crack, a faint light began to shimmer once more!

From one-tenth to one-fifth, from one-fifth to one-third, and then from one-third to half.

Shen Le took a few breaks and continued working. However, after finishing half of the work, when he started again, his brows quickly furrowed.
It's getting harder and harder to repair. The energy at the edge of the crack is becoming increasingly chaotic and violent. Originally, they could use whatever they could find, condense a rune, stick it onto the broken threads, and link them together quickly;
Now that the rift has narrowed and the flow rate has increased, he has to try seven or eight times in a row to condense a single rune.
The broken threads, which were violently "vibrating" and "swinging," made it five or six times more difficult to attach the runes, and the failure rate soared rapidly!
Or... first "weave a piece of cloth" from afar, and then "sew it on"?
Shen Le hesitated, pondered, and then began to try. He withdrew his mental energy slightly, a bit, to a position where the external energy had dissipated and was less violent, and began to outline the runes one by one.

Sure enough, this time the efficiency was much higher: having tried to "weave" the barrier between heaven and earth before, his mental energy only needed to turn slightly, and a rune quietly jumped out;
After a few breaths of focused meditation, a line floats and drifts in the void.

Following the pattern of the barrier between heaven and earth, a small patch was quickly woven. Almost visibly, the primordial energy of heaven and earth around this small patch of "fabric" was subtly smoothed, softened, and made much gentler.

All right!

Sew it on!
Shen Le mustered his mental strength and pushed this seemingly invisible and intangible fabric, which seemed to truly exist between heaven and earth, rapidly approaching the barrier between heaven and earth.

First, move sideways, trying not to block the turbulence, until the two sides are close together, then slightly adjust the position so that the runes can accurately connect with each other.

Great, it works!
The area covered by a small piece of fabric softened the primordial energy of heaven and earth, making it easier for him to use it—he had already sketched dozens of runes and strung them together with dozens of silk threads, and everything was going smoothly!
This method worked remarkably well. Shen Le was greatly encouraged and, following this approach, wove dozens more barrier fragments, sewing them together one by one.

Sew a few pieces, rest for a while, sew a few more pieces, rest for a while again.

Time seemed to stand still, and all that was known was that colorful lights flashed outside the cave, and more than one great sea monster emerged from the outside, throwing in all sorts of things:
What I'm saying is, I'm very touched by your kindness, but you don't need to throw your descendants in, right? Even if I need to eat, I won't eat your descendants' food in front of you!
And Mo Yingjun, what are you doing cutting off a piece of tentacle and throwing it in here? Are you trying to make me grill squid on the spot?!

Shen Le had no choice but to pretend he hadn't seen them, carefully sorting and storing them away, intending to return them to the powerful demons later.

If they really don't want it, you can hand it over to the Special Affairs Bureau and let them analyze the seabed artifacts. Maybe they can find some key points worth developing or exchanging.

They sewed until they were almost closed, with only the last small piece of fabric left, when suddenly something unexpected happened!
Perhaps sensing the unusual blockage in this area, or perhaps something was behind the barrier, the guy finally realized what was happening.

Or perhaps, such a large rift, if it is to be repaired, will eventually have to go through this ordeal. Deep within the rift, a turbulent current that has been accumulating for who knows how long suddenly erupts!

"boom--!!!"

In the tranquil depths of the sea, the sound of the flowing water, which could only be heard through mental perception, suddenly turned into a deafening roar!

A torrent of energy, several meters in diameter and with a chaotic mix of colors—dark red, purplish-black, pale white, and turbid green—writhed and tangled, crashing heavily towards us.

It crashed and spun, like a ferocious dragon, slamming into the light net that Shen Le was stitching together.

Before they even arrived, the light net was already teetering on the brink of collapse. The dozens, even hundreds, of pieces sewn together around it, along with the interconnected threads, began to tremble violently, on the verge of disintegrating!

"Not good!" Xuan Yuan and Wenxiu Gong both changed color at the same time, and their bodies instinctively lunged forward.

Princess Huan Yue tightly closed her clam shell, using its hardest outer shell to withstand the impact;

Mo Yingjun spread out its seven and a half claws and struggled to wriggle out of Shen Le's stone cave, trying to shield him from the first wave of impact...

However, from the very far distance, the overwhelming power cascading down from the Dragon Gate made their souls tremble, and their bodies could not move an inch, as if they were ants facing the collapsing sky!
Click!

click!
Click click click click click—

The fragile net of runes, especially the part that Shen Le had just woven and had not yet connected with the entire barrier of heaven and earth, and had not yet entered the energy cycle, was as fragile as paper in the face of this destructive torrent.

The runes representing "guidance" and "separation" were directly dispersed by the violent energy and were unable to withstand the powerful impact.
Next, the runes representing "precipitation" were reversed, and the gentle spiritual energy that had just settled was quickly blasted into chaotic particles again.

Beneath the intricate patterns they wove, the symbols “seal,” “forbidden,” “absolute,” and “protect” tried their best to maintain the barrier itself, but suddenly went out after a violent flash.

Finally, the meridians, which represent the existence of matter and are formed by absorbing the power of the five elements, began to tremble violently, their light dimmed rapidly, and they were about to completely break!

Shen Le felt as if he had been struck by a heavy hammer. His body, which was sitting cross-legged, trembled, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. He was abruptly shaken out of his meditative state.

His mental energy, which had been used to construct the rune network, was forcibly torn apart as the network of light trembled, and the backlash came immediately.

Within his sea of ​​consciousness, it felt as if a colossal wave had surged, or as if he were being pierced by a thousand red-hot steel needles. Overwhelmed by the excruciating pain, Shen Le's vision blurred, and his consciousness nearly vanished—

Can't faint!
You absolutely must not faint!
If this section collapses, the chain reaction will not only render all previous efforts futile, but the crack may even expand further due to this impact!
Even if he himself is not torn apart by this energy flow, he will at least be seriously injured; and Xuan Yuan, Wenxiu Gong in the distance, and even the creatures of this sea area will suffer!
And then there's Yun Kun... Yun Kun, and the little guys on the ship, the few Special Affairs Bureau personnel hiding inside... especially those ordinary humans, they have absolutely no ability to resist...

"Place it... in my order!!!"

Shen Le suddenly roared. His spiritual power expanded and surged like never before. Surging to its limit, a semi-transparent phantom, condensed to its extreme and radiating a pale golden glow, suddenly soared into the sky!

His spiritual power, his inner energy, all his cultivation, and even a part of his physical strength were all blended into the phantom.

Shen Le's body had completely lost all its vitality, and his breath was extremely weak. Yun Kun leaped out urgently, the ship rapidly expanding and then rapidly contracting—

With a quick expansion and contraction, Shen Le's body was taken into the deck and then carried into the old house by the women in their skirts, where it was firmly protected!
Shen Le had no time to care what Yun Kun was doing. The copper piece leaped out of his sea of ​​consciousness, emitting a heavy hum, and unfolded into a bronze cauldron missing its four legs.

Shen Le's phantom stood on the bronze cauldron, his arms outstretched, as if embracing the entire world!

In an instant, the energy of the entire deep sea and the entire world on this side of the barrier was summoned and acted in accordance with his will!
"Block," "ban," "sever," "protect"...

Countless enormous and intricate runes were rapidly generated and continuously replicated in the void.

They formed a row, layered upon layer, intertwined. For a mere instant, the torrent of energy rushing towards them paused for a moment in the void:
In that instant, the pale golden humanoid stretched out its arms and pushed forward with all its might:
"combine!!!"

(End of this chapter)