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Zhong Cai immediately smiled.
So far, everything has been going very smoothly.
However, simply hanging them together is not enough; it can only be said that they have just been strung together.
Zhong Cai continued to manipulate the golden needles.
The red needle, once again dragging the golden thread, returned to the first fragment of the primordial spirit and began the true stitching process...
The stitches must be fine and dense, with no gaps between each stitch.
Zhong Cai moved very quickly.
However, each needle insertion would draw away a large amount of Xuan power from Zhong Cai's body and consume a lot of his soul power—this was mainly because of the need to form the red needle.
For every breath the red needle lingers in the world, it consumes at least two to three tenths of Zhong Cai's profound energy.
Therefore, after only three breaths, Zhong Cai stopped channeling energy, her brow beaded with sweat.
He overestimated his own strength. Although he is indeed highly skilled in seventh-level alchemy at the Palace Building stage, it does consume much more energy than a normal seventh-level alchemist at the Spirit Transformation stage. Therefore, when he performs the suturing, he not only has to avoid the parts where ninth-level energy is circulating, but also has to use red needles to penetrate the Yuan Soul fragments of a higher level, which naturally consumes even more energy.
Fortunately, Zhong Cai could thread many needles in each breath, and when he was almost exhausted, he had stitched the two Yuan Soul fragments together!
Zhong Cai exhaled a few breaths with difficulty, and quickly took out medicine to nourish her primordial spirit and replenish her soul power. She drank and swallowed medicine one after another, without worrying about wasting anything.
Fortunately, his energy and spirit are recovering at a visible speed.
During this time, although Zhong Cai was sitting cross-legged in meditation, her eyes were always fixed on the two fragments, observing their reactions.
—At this moment, the golden needle had been returned to Zhong Cai's Dao Palace, and the red needle had also disappeared.
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These two fragments of the primordial spirit are not stable.
Although it was stitched up, and under those fine stitches, it seemed as if the two fragments were perfectly integrated—after the stitching was finished, the golden threads would actually fade quickly and merge into the primordial soul.
However, soon both fragments began to tremble.
It was as if some force was bursting out from the seam and impacting left and right.
Although the fragments were bound by the golden threads, the repulsive forces between them were still strong, causing the fragments to constantly try to break free from each other.
Before long, the gold threads that had been integrated reappeared.
This is a manifestation of energy repulsion.
At the same time, many mysterious patterns appeared on both fragments.
The patterns are exactly the same, but the joints don't match, and the patterns can't be connected, so they repel each other.
Zhong Cai understood it at a glance.
The patterns on the fragments are a kind of rhythm formed by the ninth level of energy.
Since we can't remove the residual aura from it first, can we follow these patterns to remove the subtle energy fused into the fragments?
Just as I was thinking this, the "stitching" between the fragments suddenly broke!
Then, the two fragments separated, with no trace of being stitched together, and the gold thread completely disintegrated.
At the same time, the level nine energy rhythm patterns also disappeared.
Zhong Cai squinted.
It seems that this pattern will only appear when the stitched pieces "struggle" to separate; it will not appear on a single piece.
To verify her idea, Zhong Cai tried stitching again.
The sewing process went smoothly, and after sewing, the lines would remain visible for a short while until the two fragments separated again.
This process is repeated.
Zhong Cai had to suture the fragments seven times, and the fragments separated seven times.
Then, when Zhong Cai tried to sew it up again, the fragments disintegrated the moment the red needle pierced through.
In other words, the limit is seven repeated sutures.
Zhong Cai touched her chin, her eyes bright.
This is a really difficult problem!
Zhong Cai reassembled the fragments and stitched them together again.
This time, when the rhythmic patterns reappeared, Zhong Cai summoned the mutated dragon armor soldier Gu Yuan and asked him to input energy to clear away the energy that formed the patterns—after all, this was also a Tongtian, and if energy clearing was to be performed in reality in the future, it would be necessary to rely on him.
So now it's time for Gu Yuan to try it out.
Following Zhong Cai's instructions, Gu Yuan poured his energy along the lines of the pattern—a very fine thread, to avoid too much impact.
However, once the energy entered the pattern, the Yuan Soul fragment still exploded instantly.
Zhong Cai keenly sensed that it wasn't that too much energy had been injected, but rather that the two fragments were repelling each other and stitched together, and with the addition of external energy, the internal balance was disrupted... In short, the reason was very complicated.
To avoid further problems, Zhong Cai pondered deeply and memorized the distribution of those patterns.
Next, Zhong Cai condensed only one fragment, and guided Gu Yuan to slowly infuse the fragment with tiny amounts of energy, clearing away the poisonous toad energy in the rhythmic pattern that Gu Yuan could not see.
When Gu Yuan followed the instructions this time, the fragments did not cause any problems.
But this isn't over yet; we can't be too happy yet.
Gu Yuan continued the cleaning, addressing each stripe one by one...
Finally, all the patterns were cleaned up, but at that moment, the primordial spirit exploded again!
Zhong Cai: "..."
He began to look for the reason.
The reason is that those rhythms are the network that protects the primordial soul. If it is removed rashly, the network will collapse at the last moment because of the different order of cracking.
So……
If we still want to find a solution, the best thing to do is to restore the fragment as a whole, and then determine the order in which to erase the patterns by analyzing the brushstrokes used to carve them.
Zhong Cai rubbed her eyes; her scalp felt a little numb.
To restore the whole, we must start by determining the rhythmic distribution.
By extending these lines and recognizing that all lines intersect, we can roughly determine the shape of the lines in the next fragment, and thus deduce which part of the "humanoid spirit" this fragment belongs to...
Just thinking about it gives me a headache.
Each step has many possibilities, and determining the exact one is incredibly difficult.
This is because Zhong Cai has the ability to simulate ancient cities; otherwise, it would have taken many years to conduct such a large-scale experiment!
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This seclusion lasted for several months.
Every day, Zhong Cai gets caught up in the intersection of countless stripes, trying to find the correct option.
Before him, countless human figures are formed and then disintegrate every day, as are countless fragments. He also spends many times each day stitching these fragments together and making further attempts...
He is really busy.
It was also at this time that the new disciple assessments for the Lingxian Sect and the War God Hall began.
The gates of the two factions were packed with people. Anyone without a powerful backer wanted to try their luck at these two places—although they had heard that the two factions' assessments were extremely rigorous, what if they passed?
This is an opportunity not to be missed.
Many of the cultivators who participated in the assessment were originally patients or their relatives who were still stranded outside the forces on various flying artifacts.
I still have the same thought: since we're already here, why not give it our all?
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Although it was a newly added assessment, the War God Hall and the Spirit Immortal Sect did not hold back at all. On the contrary, because many of the cultivators who came to take the test had come from the battlefield, the test for them was even more rigorous.
Many of the rogue cultivators who survived the battlefield found themselves extremely uncomfortable during the trials, but thinking of the bloodshed on the battlefield, they gradually managed to endure it.
In the end, the number of disciples who entered the sect was actually more than the number of disciples recruited at other times.
Both factions were naturally satisfied.
Similarly, they also followed the agreement, allowing disciples from other factions who passed the assessment to enter their faction for three years of advanced training.
Everyone who passed the test was very happy.
Many advanced disciples, while not possessing all the disciple privileges, were granted the right to browse the Danwu Heavenly Screen.
They can also spend alchemy points and martial arts points to buy instructional videos and various resources.
In order to gain these points, they naturally wanted to get some good items from the sky and contribute to both factions...
Furthermore, because there are many new faces, and their strength is not weak, the disciples of the two original factions will find opportunities to spar with the newcomers.
Whether it was alchemy or martial arts, the new and old disciples had competed against each other many times, and even organized many related activities in private.
With the help of these frequent exchanges and activities, both new and old disciples have made considerable progress.
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In the blink of an eye, another half year has passed.
The new disciples and those pursuing advanced studies have all adapted to life in the Lingxian Sect and the War God Hall.
On the battlefield of the Sun-Covering Mountains, the great battle was also nearing its end.
Wu Shaogan still performed exceptionally well; the Sun-Covering Alliance no longer has many capable mid-to-high-level forces left.
Although they were evenly matched in Nirvana, the Annihilation Alliance suffered a truly devastating defeat under Nirvana.
At that very moment, Ancestor Yanri and the Supreme Elder of the Nine Sounds Sect started fighting!
Yes, the battle for heaven has begun again.
At this point, it had nothing to do with the reinforcements from the Temple of War; they had done all they could.
Furthermore, because these two powerful figures lacked sufficient defensive measures to protect the younger generation while they were observing the battle, the disciples of the War God Temple, led by their temple masters, quickly fled the area.
They were preparing to return to the Temple of War.
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On the warship.
Wu Shaogan sat cross-legged on the deck, looking rather lifeless, with no expression on his face.
Not far away were his nephew and his nephew's senior apprentice.
Wu Dongxiao muttered to himself, "Although Uncle has been acting like this again not long after Uncle Zhong left... but Senior Brother, Uncle seems to be in good spirits now, he seems quite happy?"
Xuan Bing nodded slightly: "Leaving and returning are naturally different."
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