If refining the Banlan Core is akin to piercing through a blocked passage, then initially, what blocked this passage was the imprint left by Jiu Ying, the original owner.
Dark Butterfly exerted tremendous effort to erase the imprint left by Jiu Ying and replaced it with her own. When her imprint filled the passage instead of Jiu Ying's, it marked the moment the core changed hands.
Anyone else attempting to refine the core would need to repeat this process, and the expenditure of energy would be no less than Dark Butterfly's.
However, under the Chains of Life, Lu Ye's power can easily replace the imprint left by Dark Butterfly, making it his own.
This is taking over the nest.
The plan was laid out this way, but whether it succeeds, Lu Ye wasn't sure, given that he had never done such a thing before; even an old monster like Jiu Ying had only speculated.
Fortunately, at present, everything was going smoothly.
