Chapter 239: Law of Balance
In the core of the Dragon Realm, silver and gold light collided in a chaotic clash. The massive light cocoon was like a candle in the wind, flickering unsteadily. The wails of Law and energy riots coming from within grew increasingly intense, signaling that Gu Yuena's ascension had reached its most perilous stage.
Lei Chen stood alone at the edge of this Chaos, his expression as calm as ever. Only the swirling Chaos haze and purple-gold lightning in his deep eyes revealed that he had begun to mobilize the great power that transcended all heavens.
He did not rashly probe his own divine force or Divine Thought directly into the light cocoon that was on the verge of collapse.
Forcibly intervening in the ultimate Fusion of the two Origins of the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings—especially when one was on the verge of dissipating and filled with the risk of uncontrollable backlash—meant that the slightest mistake would not only fail to save her but might instead become the final straw that crushed the balance, triggering the most dreaded explosion.
His method was more fundamental, and only he, the "Plane Master," could perform it.
The Chaos emblem representing the God King authority of the "Plane Master" slowly emerged at the center of Lei Chen's forehead, emitting a warm light that embraced all things.
As his mind immersed itself, his own will resonated at the deepest level with the vast and boundless Origin of the entire Douluo Plane, which carried all Laws.
In his perception, the World was no longer just simple mountains, rivers, lakes, seas, and living beings, but a three-dimensional giant web woven from countless threads of Law, covering everything and piercing through reality and illusion.
This web was the "Law Root Network" of the Douluo Plane.
And at this moment, in a certain area of this giant web—corresponding to the "Dragon Realm" territory that had completely merged into the plane—a patch of nodes was flashing violently and irregularly, twisting, and even showing faint signs of breaking!
These nodes were the "Law Imprints" belonging solely to Gu Yuena, left on the plane's root Law network when she completely merged the Dragon Realm and her own Silver Dragon King Laws into the Douluo Plane!
Among them were Law pathways representing the Silver Dragon King's elemental creation, as well as new Law traces representing the destruction of power added due to the Fusion with the gold dragon king origin.
Because Gu Yuena was at the core of the Dragon Realm undergoing her deepest ascension, her own state of Law directly mirrored and profoundly affected these imprints she left on the plane's root network.
At this moment, the imbalance between gold and silver and the conflict of Origins were reflected on the plane's Law network. The nodes corresponding to the "Gold Dragon King's" Law of destruction dimmed rapidly, their fluctuations became turbulent, and their structures turned unstable. Meanwhile, the nodes corresponding to the "Silver Dragon King's" Law of creation shone excessively and expanded violently. The connecting pathways between the two twisted and broke, forming regional Law "blockages" and "clashes."
This was Lei Chen's point of entry!
He was not going to directly balance the gold and silver Origins within Gu Yuena's body—that was Gu Yuena's "internal affair." As the Plane Master, what he needed to do was "regulate" the disorder in the "Law environment" of this plane caused by her internal imbalance!
"In the name of the Plane Master," Lei Chen's voice was low and grand. It did not resound through the Dragon Realm but echoed across the Law level of the entire Douluo Plane, like a decree that stabilized the universe. "Govern all Laws, comb through Yin and Yang, and harmonize the clear and the turbid."
As his voice fell, he slowly raised his right hand. In his palm, the light of the Chaos emblem suddenly blazed!
The power of the Plane Origin, vast as a sea of stars and heavy as the earth, was summoned by the supreme authority. It surged from the deepest part of the plane, from that seven-colored sea of light, following the invisible and omnipresent Law network, and converged turbulently toward the disordered area corresponding to the Dragon Realm!
This time, it was not a simple energy infusion, but the most subtle and essential "Law regulation."
Lei Chen's Divine Thought split into hundreds of millions of strands, like golden needles in the hands of the most skilled physician, precisely piercing into the nodes and pathways of the plane's Law network that corresponded to Gu Yuena and were currently imbalanced and chaotic.
First were the nodes representing the "Gold Dragon King's" Law of destruction, which were rapidly dimming and on the verge of collapse.
The Plane Origin power summoned by Lei Chen turned into the gentlest and most resilient "adhesive" and "nutrient." He did not forcibly increase their intensity or status—that was beyond the authority of the Plane Master and violated the nature of Law—but instead "stabilized" and "smoothed" them.
The Origin power permeated those Law structures about to collapse, smoothing the violent agitation and cracks within them caused by erosion and suppression. Using the plane's own characteristics of "inclusion" and "bearing," it provided a temporarily stable "external environment" free from further impact, like temporarily reinforcing a dam for a section of a river about to burst and diverting some of the impact force.
At the same time, Lei Chen deliberately guided a small portion of other plane Law remnants that were relatively mild and leaned toward "darkness," "destruction," and "power." Like trickling streams, they surrounded and nourished these dim nodes. He was not injecting the gold dragon king origin but creating a Law atmosphere of "mutual aid among similar kinds," providing a faint support and resonance from the outside to help them stabilize their structures and slow down the collapse process.
Next were the "Silver Dragon King" creation Law nodes that were excessively bright, expanding violently, and attempting to "assimilate" everything.
Lei Chen's regulation was even more ingenious. He did not suppress, nor could he suppress, the manifestation of a God King's Origin. What he did was "guide" and "divert."
The vast Plane Origin power turned into invisible, soft "riverbeds" and "barriers," beginning to carefully comb through and guide those torrents of Silver Dragon King creation Law that were surging excessively and losing restraint.
A portion of the creation power that was too violent and trying to forcibly assimilate the Gold Dragon King nodes was gently "guided" in other directions by the Plane Origin power. It either permeated into the mountains and veins of the Dragon Realm itself for harmless nourishment and diffusion or was temporarily channeled into the Plane Origin Sea for "buffered" storage.
At the same time, using his authority as the Plane Master, Lei Chen slightly "strengthened" the "connections" and "resonances" between the Silver Dragon King Law nodes and other basic elemental Law nodes of the Douluo Plane.
This was not weakening the Silver Dragon King Law, but "broadening" the channels for its output and influence.
It was like opening several flood-relief tributaries for a great river about to overflow, allowing its overly concentrated power to have more and smoother outlets, better merging with the elemental cycle of the entire plane, thereby reducing its direct pressure on the internal Gold Dragon King nodes.
Finally, and crucially, was the step of repairing the "intermediate pathways" connecting the gold and silver Law nodes that had broken or twisted due to their conflict.
These pathways were originally intended to be important channels in the future "Dragon God" Law where creation and destruction reached a balance and transformed into each other. Their current breakage intensified the internal isolation and clash.
Using his own Chaos Origin will as a guide, Lei Chen harmonized the vast Plane Origin power, turning it into the Law radiance with the most "adhesive" and "repairing" properties. Like the most skillful weaver, he began to carefully re-weave and reconnect these broken pathways.
He did not forcibly define the future form of these pathways—that was something that would evolve naturally after Gu Yuena's successful ascension. He merely used the plane's fundamental characteristics of "bearing," "inclusion," and "maintaining existence" to provide a "scaffold" and "channel" for these breaks, reconnecting them and restoring the possibility of basic energy and information exchange, breaking the state of internal isolation.
The entire regulation process lasted for an unknown amount of time. Lei Chen was like a supreme deity standing outside the eye of a storm, using the entire plane as a chessboard and Laws as chess pieces to perform a delicate surgery concerning life and death. The Chaos emblem on his forehead flowed with light unceasingly, and his aura breathed and pulsed in unison with the entire Douluo Plane.
The effect was immediate.
The regulation at the plane Law level directly fed back from the outside into the reality of the Dragon Realm, mirroring onto the light cocoon at its core!
The light cocoon, which had been fluctuating violently—with one side blazing silver-white like a sea and the other side dark gold and dimming toward extinction—saw the raging conflict on its surface begin to calm down at a speed visible to the naked eye!
The excessively bright silver-white radiance that had tried to devour everything seemed to be combed and diverted by an invisible force. The light remained brilliant, but it lost some of its overbearing nature and gained more orderly flow. The speed at which it assimilated the dark gold area slowed down significantly.
The dark gold light, which had been on the verge of dissipating and flickering unsteadily, seemed to have gained a breathing space. The momentum of its dissipation was halted. Although the light was still weak, it no longer continued to dim. Instead, it showed a faint sign of becoming stable, and the wails and backlashes filled with destructive agitation coming from within also weakened significantly.
Most importantly, at the junction of silver and gold, where the two had previously been annihilating each other in a frenzy and forming an absolute dead zone, the intensity of the conflict began to drop notably. The silver-white and dark gold lights were no longer crashing into each other in a life-or-death struggle but instead showed a subtle and slow... contact and probing. Although the boundaries were still clear, at least the extreme state of opposition that could trigger an explosion at any moment was eased.
The violent tremors of the light cocoon itself gradually subsided. Although the flow of internal energy and the collision of Laws could still be felt, it was no longer the previous kind of out-of-control Chaos leading to destruction. Instead, it regained a "sense of order," seeking balance through hardship and nurturing new life through confrontation.
The scene of the Dragon Realm's collapse also slowed down. The "elementalization" of the silver-white area and the "return to the void" process of the dark gold area came to a halt. The spatial rifts at the junction began to slowly close. Although it was still riddled with scars, the catastrophic expansion like the end of the World was paused.
"Phew..."
Lei Chen, who had been fully concentrated on the delicate control, slowly let out a long breath. The light of the Chaos emblem at the center of his forehead gradually faded. He withdrew his vast Divine Thought and regulating power that had spread across the plane's Law network and stood with his hands behind his back, quietly watching the massive silver-gold light cocoon ahead, which had regained its stability and no longer faced the danger of collapse despite the flowing light.
He could clearly sense that Gu Yuena's aura was still rising and falling within the light cocoon, undergoing a difficult and slow Fusion and transformation. The final result of the ascension was still unknown. But at least, the most dangerous crisis of collapse caused by the imbalance of status had been successfully resolved by him from the outside, gaining her crucial time for adjustment and adaptation.
At the edge of the Dragon Realm, Di Tian and Wang Qiu'er, who had been watching tensely, finally let out a long sigh of relief. Although their hearts were still hanging, the despair from before was gone from their faces. Their gazes toward Lei Chen's simple figure were filled with endless gratitude.
Lei Chen did not say much. He just took one last deep look at the stabilized light cocoon, and his figure quietly faded away like a breeze, leaving the Dragon Realm.
His work was done. Next, whether she could truly take that final step and reclaim the position of the Dragon God would depend on Gu Yuena's own destiny.
The core of the Dragon Realm returned to a kind of calm after the storm, carrying scars. The silver-gold interwoven light cocoon pulsed slowly like a giant egg nurturing new life, continuing its unfinished, supreme path of transformation under the nourishment of the repaired plane Laws.