The Power of Will

On the thirtieth day after his mental perception ability had completely stabilized, Su Fan squatted by the city wall in the morning light, quietly closing his eyes.

He had just gone through all the familiar things in his mind—city bricks, axe handles, thresholds, water tanks, broken mirrors, the gold patterns on the city walls, the earth's vein skeleton—every time his mind locked on something, the law membrane in his left palm completed a full cycle of prediction and perception.

He opened his eyes and looked down at his palm.

The luster on the surface of the law membrane shines steadily at the reference brightness, the five colors continue to operate deep within the law membrane, and the background vibration of heaven and earth in the background noise hums in a rhythm completely synchronized with the heartbeat.

The entire Law Expression maintained an extremely stable and quiet state of existence under the complete operation of the perception system.

It's as if the palm of the primordial world has reached a complete sensory balance, with all functions in place and all data interconnected.

He thought about the old domain for a moment.

The moment the thought arose, the dark purple base color of the old domain core on the surface of the law membrane brightened slightly compared to usual, and then stopped.

The way he stopped was different from how he anticipated any primordial object.

When anticipating a prehistoric object, the luster will adjust from the reference brightness to the corresponding predicted brightness, and then return to the reference brightness after completing the perception cycle.

When predicting the old domain, the light brightened slightly but the perception cycle was not completed.

It lit up there and stopped.

It's like a door that's been pushed open a crack but not fully open.

It's as if the Law Membrane sensed the existence of the Old Domain, but the perception system hasn't yet established a complete perception model of the Old Domain.

"The law membrane encountered a missing perception model when attempting to perceive the old domain."

Xu squatted on the edge of the white rock plateau, his right hand withdrawn from his chest to sense the real-time status of the Law Expression.

"A lot of data from the old domain is sealed in the law membrane—the core image of the old domain, the emotional arc of the old domain, and the pulsating trajectory of the light filaments of the old domain."

However, this data was proactively sent by the core of the old domain; it was the old domain's self-presentation to the primordial world.

The Law Membrane has never actively perceived the Old Domain using its own perception system.

It has been passively receiving data from the old domain.

Now, when you ask it to actively perceive the old domain, it encounters the obstacle of never having established a perception model.

Its system does not have the perception model of the old domain.

It doesn't know how to actively perceive the old domain using its own sensory methods.

It can only receive old domain data as an external source, and cannot actively explore old domain as a sensing object.

The perception system has not yet learned how to explore old domains.

It doesn't know from which direction, at what frequency, or in what way to establish an active sensing connection to the old domain.

It stood there, waiting for you to tell it what to do.

Su Fan sat quietly with his hands on his knees for a long time.

He didn't know how to tell the Law Membrane what to do, because he himself didn't know how to actively perceive the Old Domain.

The old realm was always a distant existence for him.

His perception system can predict the temperature and frequency of laws of a city brick, and judge the characteristics of laws of a cloud layer, but he has no basis for perception of the old domain.

He never touched the old domain with his own senses.

He receives data when the old domain sends it, but he is unaware when the old domain leaves.

He never actively reached out to sense the existence of the Old Domain.

He turned his left hand over and looked at the dark purple base of his palm, which continued to glow on the surface of the law membrane.

That layer of color is a visual representation of the core mirror data of the old domain. It is the imprint left by the data actively sent by the old domain in the law structure, not the sensory data generated after he touched the old domain with his own perception.

It was as if the old realm had left a map in his palm, but he had never walked the path on that map with his own feet.

He only had the data that the old domain told him; he had no perception of the old domain himself.

"Can the Law Membrane learn to actively sense the Old Domain?" Su Fan placed his left hand on his knee and looked up at the direction of the Ruins of Return.

"able."

The sound of the void came from the direction of the crack, a little farther than before.

But it will take time.

The rule membrane needs to establish a new category of perception model—the extra-domain perception model.

Currently, all perception models are object perception models based on primitive environments.

To perceive the old domain, the Law Membrane needs to establish a completely new way of perception.

It cannot directly apply the perception methods of the primordial environment to the old domain, because the law structure of the old domain is completely different from that of the primordial world.

It requires building a perception model for external law environments from scratch.

The process of building a model may require continuously, proactively, and repeatedly directing perceptual intentions towards the old domain, allowing the rule membrane to accumulate a small amount of usable data in each attempt, and then gradually building the perceptual model using the accumulated data.

Su Fan raised his left hand, palm facing the direction of the Ruins of Return.

He focused intently on his mind—the old domain.

The dark purple background on the surface of the law membrane brightened slightly, then stopped.

He held onto that idea and didn't retract it.

The luster of the Law Membrane remained lit, as if the Law Membrane had remained in a state of "attempting to perceive beyond the realm" without exiting, thanks to his continuous input of intention.

"Maintain this position."

The sound of the rubble came from the direction of the crack.

"The rule membrane is continuously attempting to establish the initial structure of the extraterritorial perception model."

It remains in a state of perceptual attempt under your continuous mental input, constantly releasing law detection pulses towards the old domain.

The pulse is extremely weak, but it is continuously being sent.

Each time it is sent, the Law Membrane receives an extremely faint echo from the Law environment in the direction of the old domain.

The intensity of the echo was extremely weak, so weak that it was almost indistinguishable in the background noise of the primordial law environment.

But the law membrane continues to accumulate those response data.

Each response is a tiny grain of data.

It will use those particles to gradually build the structural foundation of the out-of-domain perception model.

Su Fan sat quietly, keeping his palms facing the Ruins of Return.

The dark purple background on the surface of the law membrane remained slightly lit under continuous mental input.

He could sense that the Law Membrane was continuously sending out extremely weak Law Probe Pulses, the pulses pointing directly towards the spatial location of the Old Domain.

Each time he sent a message, he felt a very faint echo deep within his palm being received by the Law Membrane and stored in a newly created storage area of ​​the transparent memory layer.

The echo was extremely faint, like a ripple left on the surface of a still body of water by a distant breeze.

He squatted by the city wall from dawn until noon.

For four or five hours, he maintained a continuous mental focus, with the law membrane continuously sending detection pulses, continuously receiving weak echoes, and continuously storing the echo data into a new storage area.

At noon, he felt that the intensity of the echo was slightly stronger than in the morning—a tiny bit stronger, like a slight increase in the speed of a very weak stream.

After sensing the continuous detection pulses sent by the Law Membrane, the old domain began to respond actively with an extremely weak amplitude.

After receiving the detection pulse from the Law Membrane, the core of the old domain is adjusting its own law frequency to make the echo easier to capture.

He decided to continue.

He kept thinking about the old domain.

The palm law membrane remained lit.

The probe pulses are continuously transmitted.

The response is continuously received and stored in a new storage area.

He continued in the evening, in the middle of the night, in the early morning of the next day, at noon on the second day, in the evening of the second day, and in the early morning of the third day.

For three days and three nights in a row, he squatted by the city wall with his left palm facing the direction of the Ruins Crack, concentrating all his thoughts on the Old Domain. The Law Membrane continuously sent out detection pulses, continuously received echoes, and continuously accumulated extraterrestrial perception data.

He only drank a little water and ate a little dry food briefly over the three days.

The law membrane remained lit, the background noise continued to ring, and the echoes continued to accumulate.

The number of data granules in the new storage area has increased from single digits to triple digits.

The law membrane is slowly building the structural framework of the extraterritorial perception model through the continuous accumulation of feedback data.

The framework is not yet complete, but its foundation has been laid.

The first perceived response is received by the law membrane and stored in a new storage area.

The initial structure of the extraterritorial perception model grows from that single data particle.

It now has hundreds of data particles and is slowly growing into a working perception model.

By the time he felt that the extraterritorial perception model had taken initial shape, it had been seven days.

He stopped focusing his mind and put his left hand back on his knee.

The dark purple background on the surface of the law membrane glows with a stable light.

"The initial structure of the extraterritorial sensing model has been formed."

The sound of the void came from the direction of the crack, a little softer than it had been seven days ago, but clearer.

"The Law Membrane spent seven days establishing an initial perception model for the old domain's law environment through continuous detection of pulses and response data."

The model is not yet complete; it can only perceive a rough outline of the overall state of the old domain.

However, its existence gives the Law Membrane the basic ability to actively perceive the outside world.

You can now probe specific areas within the old domain using the guiding principles of intention.

Su Fan raised his left hand, palm facing the direction of the Ruins of Return.

He focused intently on the core of the old domain in his mind.

The dark purple background on the surface of the Law Membrane changed from a bright, lustrous state to a new state the instant it received the intention—while maintaining the luster, it began to pulsate with an extremely subtle amplitude, the rhythm of which was completely consistent with the heartbeat frequency locked by the core of the old domain.

For example, the Law Membrane successfully sensed the operating rhythm of the old domain core for the first time through the extra-domain perception model, and the perception signal was transmitted back clearly and accurately.

Su Fan opened his eyes and looked down at his palm.

The dark purple luster on the surface of the Law Membrane was pulsating continuously, and the heartbeat frequency of the Old Domain Core was directly transmitted to his Law Perception Layer through the Law Membrane.

The original core synchronous heartbeat noise in his chest cavity was superimposed with a new source of perceived heartbeat.

After the two heartbeats overlapped in the space of law perception, they became indistinguishable from each other.

It seems that the extraterrestrial perception ability of the Law Membrane has successfully connected the operational status of the old domain core with the law structure in the Primordial Palm.

That connection was something he actively established; it was achieved through the extraterritorial perception capabilities that the Law Membrane had developed through seven days of continuous detection and accumulation, rather than passively receiving external data.

The connections it establishes will persist.

The extraterritorial perception model of the law membrane will be continuously improved and deepened with each active detection.

It will gradually learn to perceive the more refined structure within the old domain and the deeper environmental characteristics of the old domain's laws.

Ultimately, it will develop into a complete system for proactively sensing the outside world.

At that time, he will only need to think about the Old Domain in his mind to perceive what is happening inside the Old Domain as clearly as he can now perceive primordial objects.

The Primordial Palm will enable proactive perception and continuous tracking of the world beyond its current boundaries.

The morning after the initial formation of the extraterritorial perception model, Su Fan squatted by the city wall, raised his left hand, palm facing the direction of the Ruins of Return, and focused on thinking about "the three axe-back indentations on the surface of the old domain core".

The Law Membrane activated its extraterritorial perception model the instant it received the thought, sending a set of directional detection pulses toward the old domain.

The direction of the pulse precisely locks the spatial coordinates of the three depressions on the core surface of the old domain.

Less than a heartbeat later, the law membrane received the probe response.

After the echo was analyzed, it was clearly presented in his law perception layer—the golden law fragments at the bottom of the three recesses glowed with a very faint warm golden light under the reflection of the core halo, and the fragments were slowly releasing subtle golden pulses in a rhythm that was completely synchronized with the heartbeat of the old domain.

Su Fan opened his eyes.

The information he just sensed was completely consistent with the information he had read from the mirror data sent by the old domain core back then.

This time, however, he wasn't reading the image data sent from the old domain. Instead, he actively probed the core surface of the old domain using his own perception system and obtained the state there in real time.

He knew that the golden fragments were still releasing pulses and glowing with a warm golden light.

The state of the three axe-back indentations on the surface of the old domain core is consistent with what he read in the mirror data—this indicates that no major changes in the law structure have occurred on the old domain core during this period.

After confirming the state of the old domain core with his mind, he placed his left hand back on his knee and quietly sensed that the dark purple luster on the surface of the law membrane returned to the baseline brightness after the external perception model completed its detection.

"The detection accuracy of the extraterritorial sensing model is continuously improving."

The sound of the ruins came from the edge of the White Rock Plateau, with an added layer of confirmed calmness compared to before.

"The results of the first active detection of the depression on the core surface of the old domain show that the law membrane is able to locate the specific spatial coordinates inside the old domain with high accuracy and return resolvable detection responses."

The quality of the probe response data is continuously improving, and the law membrane is continuously optimizing the internal parameters of the extraterrestrial sensing model by accumulating fine-structure data with each probe.

It will gradually learn to perceive the more refined internal structure of the old domain.

Su Fan raised his left hand and thought to himself, "The fragment with the smiling arc on the outermost edge of the Old Domain."

The law membrane sends directional detection pulses pointing to the spatial coordinates of the outermost fragment.

After the echo returned, he sensed the real-time state of the fragment—four engravings arranged side by side on the fragment's surface: a smiling arc, golden patterns, melody encoding, and silver-gray forecast lines. The depth of the four engravings was consistent with what he had read in the mirror data.

The warm, silvery-white primordial law at the bottom of the engraving was still slowly flowing.

The fragment rotated in the void within the old domain, and its axial deflection angle had changed slightly compared to the angle when he last read the mirror data.

Those changes conform to the natural drifting pattern of a fragment of a law rotating on its own for a long time in the old domain void.

That fragment continued to operate within the old domain, maintaining its own stable state of existence.

The law membrane confirmed through active detection that the fragment was still there, and also confirmed the natural changes that had occurred during this period.

He then continuously probed the locations within several old domains—the pulsating state of several light filaments, the law activity level of a dozen or so end nodes, and the flow rate of the dark purple halo on the core surface of the old domain.

Each probe returned resolvable response data.

The content of the data differs slightly from the mirror data sent by the old domain core back then—those differences are natural changes that have occurred during this period due to the evolution of the internal laws and environment of the old domain.

The rule membrane actively collects and stores all the differential data in the database of the extraterritorial perception model.

The outside perception model is updated after each detection, integrating the newly collected differential data into the model's internal structural parameters.

The model's accuracy has increased through continuous accumulation.

Su Fan squatted by the city wall, quietly sensing the stable state of the extraterrestrial sensing luster on the surface of the law membrane as it returned to the baseline brightness after each successful detection.

The mirror data sent by the core of the old domain back then was like a map left by the old domain to the primordial world.

The law membrane is now beginning to navigate, probe, confirm, and update the map's contents through an external sensing model.

He doesn't need to rely entirely on the old domain actively sending data to understand its status.

He can proactively probe the current state of the old domain through his own Palm Law system and update his understanding of the old domain in real time.

He stood up, carried the Pangu Axe, and walked back to the weapons shop.

The old domain is still operating stably over there.

The rule membrane confirmed this through an out-of-domain perception model.

He lay down, closed his eyes, and fell asleep peacefully as the extraterrestrial sensing light on the surface of the Law Membrane returned to its baseline brightness after completing its latest detection.

He woke up the next morning.

In the morning light, he examined the fragment with the smiling arc again, confirming that the fragment was still rotating, and that the axial tilt had shifted by an extremely slight amount compared to the previous day.

He placed his left hand on his knee and quietly sensed the stable brightness of the extraterrestrial luster on the surface of the Law Membrane in the morning light.

The extraterritorial perception model is being continuously improved.

It becomes more accurate each day as it continues to grow.

It continues to grow and update, constantly being refined and improved every day.

It won't stop.

On the thirty-fifth day of continuous improvement of the extraterritorial perception model, Su Fan squatted by the city wall, his left palm facing the direction of the Ruins Crack, and focused on thinking about the outermost fragment with the smiling arc in his mind.

The law membrane activated the extraterritorial sensing model, sending directional probe pulses to the spatial coordinates of the fragment.

After the echo returned, he sensed the real-time state of the fragment—the depth of the four marks was basically the same as when he probed it before, but the axis of the fragment's rotation had shifted by an extremely slight angle, which was consistent with the natural drift over a long period of time.

He noted down the state of the fragments and was about to withdraw his thoughts when the dark purple luster on the surface of the law membrane suddenly became a little brighter than before.

The brightness level is different from the luster changes produced during his daily detection; it is not a regular cycle from the reference level to the detection brightness and back to the reference level.

After the light shone, it did not immediately return to the baseline. Instead, it continued to shine at a level slightly brighter than the baseline, as if the law membrane was continuously receiving some kind of weak signal input.

Su Fan remained motionless, keeping his palm facing the Guixu Crack.

The luster of the law membrane continued to shine at that new level of brightness, and the vibration of the background noise of heaven and earth slightly accelerated its rhythm.

He waited quietly for an extremely long time, about several dozen heartbeats, before the luster of the Law Membrane began to pulsate very slowly at that higher brightness level.

The pulse was so subtle that it was almost imperceptible unless he was focused on sensing it.

The pulsation lasted for about five or six heartbeats after it started, and then the luster returned to the baseline brightness.

The continuous illumination of the abnormal state, along with the duration of the pulsation and the rhythm of recovery, constitutes a complete sequence of law-based signals.

The length and content of the sequence are clearly discernible.

"The Law Membrane just received a proactive Law signal from within the Old Domain."

The sound of the ruins came from the edge of the White Rock Plateau, with an extra layer of subtle fluctuation compared to usual.

"The content of the signal is actively sent by the old domain core, not a response returned after the law membrane is detected."

The signal takes the form of a continuous, regular pulsating sequence.

After initial analysis by the extraterrestrial perception model of the Law Membrane, the content of the pulsation sequence, in the primordial language, means—'Are you still awake?'

Su Fan looked down at the stable light shining in his palm after the baseline was restored.

The core of the old domain just asked him a question through his law membrane.

It was not through a mirror resonance channel, not through sensing pulses, not through any previously known old domain communication methods.

The old domain core sent him a law signal directly through the extra-domain perception model of the law membrane in his palm.

The signal contained a question: "Are you still awake?"

During the period when he was actively probing the old domain, the core of the old domain had sensed the detection pulse of the law membrane and learned to send signals in reverse through the same set of perception channels.

He probed it, and it responded with questions.

It's like how old communication methods have been upgraded and replaced after the establishment of an extra-domain perception model on the law membrane.

"The core of the old domain has received continuous probe pulses from the law membrane."

Xu squatted at the foot of the city wall, his right hand tucked into his chest, sensing the changes in the data stream of the laws and expressions.

"The timing of the reception has gradually accumulated over the past thirty days."

It gradually deciphered the law frequency pattern used by the law membrane when sending probe pulses by continuously receiving probe pulses.

After the analysis was completed, it adjusted the frequency of the signal it used to send to the exact same frequency as the pulse of the law membrane detection.

The communication protocol has been standardized.

The old domain core can now send proactive signals to its holder at any time through the extra-domain perception channel of the law membrane.

The signal will not be delayed, will not be attenuated, and will not require any intermediate medium for translation.

Its meaning can be directly transmitted to the holder's law-awareness level through the law membrane's perception system.

Su Fan turned his left hand over and looked at the dark purple luster on his palm, which shone with a stable and even light at the reference brightness.

The old domain core just asked him, "Are you still awake?"

This is not a casual, everyday greeting.

It is confirmed that the user of the law membrane is still active.

It wanted to know if he was still using the sensory function of the Law Membrane and whether he was still able to receive the active signals it sent.

During the time he was continuously probing the Old Domain, the core of the Old Domain was also constantly monitoring whether he was still operating.

"Do you want to reply to it?" A Dou asked, squatting at the foot of the city wall.

Su Fan remained silent for a moment. "How do I send an active signal to the core of the old domain through the law membrane?"

"The Law Membrane now possesses the ability to send proactive signals to the core of the old domain."

Xu crouched at the edge of the White Rock Plateau, sensing the communication function status of the Law Expression.

It established a complete two-way communication protocol through an external sensing model.

The holder only needs to form a meaning in their mind, and the Law Membrane will automatically convert the meaning into a Law Frequency Pulse Sequence that the Old Domain Core can recognize, and then send it through the external perception channel.

No additional operations are required during the sending process.

Whatever you think in your heart, the law membrane will emit that same energy.

Su Fan turned his left palm toward the direction of the Ruins of Return and thought intently for a moment before saying, "I'm awake."

The luster of the law film lingered at the reference brightness for a very short moment, then the dark purple layer lit up briefly, and after that, it returned to the reference brightness.

The process of flashing on and off is extremely short, less than the time it takes for a heartbeat to complete.

It was as if the Law Membrane had transformed his thoughts into a sequence of Law Pulses and sent them to the core of the old domain.

After sending the message, he waited quietly for the old domain core's response.

The dark purple sheen on the surface of the palm law membrane shines with a stable light on the baseline brightness, and the background vibration of heaven and earth in the background noise is maintained at a rhythm that is completely synchronized with the heartbeat.

After about twenty heartbeats, the dark purple luster on the surface of the Law Membrane lit up again, lasting for the same duration as before, and then returned to the baseline.

The Law Membrane received a response signal from the core of the old domain.

The pulse was slightly faster than before, as if the old domain core had undergone a subtle change in its emotional law after receiving his reply—its heartbeat quickened a little after confirming that he was awake and could receive signals.

The acceleration was so slight that it was impossible to detect unless directly perceived through the Law Membrane.

It was as if the core of the old domain, upon learning that he was still awake, slightly accelerated its own operating rhythm.

After speeding up, it returned to its original rhythm, like a sense of relief after confirmation.

"The Old Domain Core has received your reply."

Xu crouched at the foot of the city wall, sensing the communication data stream of the Law's expression.

"After the reply was sent through the Law Membrane, the Old Domain Core generated a very slight change in Law Emotion as soon as it completed the analysis—confirmation."

I've confirmed you're still online, that the communication channels are open, and that everything is normal.

After confirming this, its heart rate increased slightly, then returned to normal.

It's like a natural reaction it has after confirming that you're awake.

Su Fan placed his left hand on his knee and quietly sensed the dark purple luster on the surface of the palm law membrane, which was steadily shining at the reference brightness.

A complete two-way active communication channel has been established between the old domain core and the law membrane.

He can perceive the old domain through it, and the old domain can also perceive him through it.

The two sensory systems are connected through the law membrane.

He doesn't need to understand the state of the old domain through the mirror data of the old domain core, nor does he need to wait for the old domain core to send him a perception pulse through the mirror resonance channel.

He can directly communicate with the core of the old domain using his own palm law system.

He could easily get a response from the old domain core just by saying "I'm awake".

It's like the bridge between the primordial wilderness and the old realm has grown into a living, talking bridge.

He wasn't sure if the core members of the old domain would frequently reach out to him in the future, but he was certain that they could already greet each other through the Law Membrane at any time.