Li Fan sped through the spatial passage. Before reaching the Empire's small world, the Final Dissociation Disc had already absorbed, transformed, and deciphered all one hundred thousand formations engraved upon the Sky-Patrolling Arrow.
He paused briefly. Twin silver rays shot from his eyes, and in an instant, the formations on the arrow's surface were completely erased.
Those hundred thousand formations not only granted acceleration, positioning, and amplification effects, but also layered together to form armor-like protection. This made the Sky-Patrolling Arrow incredibly hard, to an unimaginable degree.
Yet with those formations gone, its inner core material was now revealed.
Li Fan then realized—this Sky-Patrolling Arrow seemed to be a living creature!
Beneath a layer of hardened keratin, faint spiritual fluctuations could be sensed. The fluctuations were so weak that without Li Fan's soul strength—far surpassing that of an ordinary Dao Integration cultivator—he would have overlooked them entirely.
"What is this thing…"
Li Fan's interest was piqued.
He separated a wisp of divine sense, attempting to communicate with the arrow. However, it seemed frightened. Almost instantly, its spiritual fluctuations vanished completely, and no sign of life remained.
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Afterward, no matter how much Li Fan probed, the Sky-Patrolling Arrow stubbornly refused to show any trace of life again.
Helpless, Li Fan stored it within his own Inner World, leaving a thread of divine sense to monitor it constantly. He planned to wait until it lowered its guard before investigating further.
"No wonder the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance managed to deploy over a thousand Sky-Patrolling Arrows in such a short time. So they were actually some kind of unknown living organism, combined with layered formations…"
"There must also be a central control hub to coordinate them all."
Recalling the massive web formed by the Sky-Patrolling Arrows during the battle between the Ten Thousand Immortal Alliance and the Five Elders Association, Li Fan pondered deeply.
"Now that I have fully deciphered the composite formations, if I can analyze the nature of this living organism…"
"I can mass-produce Sky-Patrolling Arrows myself."
"Whether for personal use or to sell the secret to the Five Elders Association, both options would be highly profitable."
Although in good spirits, Li Fan remained cautious.
Seeing the Empire's small world in the distance, he did not reveal his presence immediately.
Instead, he first used divine sense to scan thoroughly, ensuring the Empire had not set any traps. Only then did he activate his power.
Under the Soul-Ignition Technique's enhancement, five eerie blood moons instantly descended over the Empire's heavens.
Darkness fell as the original sun was completely blotted out.
Terrifying divine demons emerged from the blood moons, swiftly occupying every corner of the Empire.
The extreme yin and darkness radiating from their bodies froze the minds of mortals below.
They could not even produce thoughts of fear, their bodies stiff and motionless.
As the spectral domain enveloped the Empire, Li Fan's cold voice echoed through the world.
"The three-year deadline has arrived. How is the task I gave you progressing?"
His voice was like thunder, shaking the entire Empire.
Everyone within was overwhelmed by despair, as if witnessing gods and demons effortlessly tearing their world apart.
Moments later, three streaks of light—azure, crimson, and golden—flew toward Li Fan. They were Qing, Hong, and the Imperial Princess.
"Greetings, Senior."
Compared to the last time, Li Fan's aura had grown even more overwhelming.
The three could barely remain standing.
"Fortunately, we did not fail your expectations. Over the past three years, we have poured the full strength of our nation into upgrading the Spiritual Energy Synthetic Technology," Qing finally reported, his voice trembling yet determined. Ṛ𝔞₦Օ฿Ěŝ
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Li Fan's gaze locked onto Qing, causing her heart to tighten for an instant.
"Ha ha ha ha…"
"Very good. Take me to see it."
Moments later, Li Fan's laughter made her secretly sigh in relief.
They walked together into the Imperial Palace Treasury.
At the place where the Myriad Phenomena Furnace had once stood, there was now a massive machine.
Its outer form resembled an hourglass, and faint sounds could be heard, as if something were dripping from the upper chamber to the lower one.
"Senior, please have a look."
Qing pressed a button on the side of the hourglass-like device.
The dripping sound became faster and faster.
When it reached a certain point, a small opening suddenly appeared at the bottom of the hourglass.
Immediately, a stream of pure spiritual energy burst out from the opening.
The concentration of spiritual energy was so high that at first, it condensed into "spiritual rain." Only after a while did it turn into white mist and slowly disperse into the air.
Li Fan stretched out his hand and caught a wisp of the spiritual energy.
Aside from the faint trace of blood scent that lingered within it, it was almost no different from natural spiritual energy.
Even so, compared to the spiritual energy produced through the catalysis of exotic beast flesh and blood, this was far superior in quality.
After a short outburst of spiritual energy, the metallic hourglass grew nearly silent.
Only after a long while did the soft dripping sound return.
However, Li Fan noticed that as time passed, the frequency of the dripping became increasingly faster.
He realized that once it reached the same speed as before, new spiritual energy would once again erupt.
When his divine sense penetrated through the metal hourglass and entered its interior, Li Fan discovered that the upper chamber of the hourglass was filled with countless minute flesh-like tissues.
No, rather than flesh, they resembled a colony of fungi.
Their blood vitality was faint, and there was no trace of consciousness within them. Their only purpose was to absorb nutrients and reproduce themselves.
"How interesting."
Sensing his reaction, Qing began to explain at the perfect moment.
"In the past, spiritual energy could only be extracted from the beast cores of certain exotic beasts. From birth to the formation of their crystalline cores, even with our accelerated breeding methods, an exotic beast required at least half a year."
"Even then, the production efficiency of spiritual energy was far too low. So, we changed our approach and began cultivating them through guided evolution."
"We eliminated all other functions, retaining only the part responsible for generating beast cores."
"Then, we merged in the traits of a fungal-type exotic beast known for its extreme reproductive speed."
"After over a hundred generations of iterative cultivation, we finally created this nearly perfect organism."
Though Qing's tone remained steady, her eyes shone with undisguised excitement as she spoke of their research achievements.
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"As Senior can see, from the moment this creature is born, it begins self-replication."
"It no longer requires the process of reproduction. It can multiply endlessly through pure self-copying. Moreover, the nutrients it needs are no more than those of ordinary fungi: water and sunlight."
"Once a crystalline core is formed within its body, the creature dies naturally. Its flesh separates from the core."
"The cores are collected into the lower part of the funnel, while the corpses of the beasts are decomposed and converted back into nutrients, to be absorbed by their own kind."
"This cycle continues endlessly. As long as a small amount of nutrients is added at fixed intervals, this device can continuously produce spiritual energy."