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Chapter 209: Chapter 206: Accident
Watching the departing Artifact Spirit Purple Sun, Gu Jinlai glanced again at the right hall of the Aries Star Palace, where the inner and outer spatial dimensions were markedly different.
"As far as I know, one kilogram of refined special elements releases energy equivalent to eight hundred thousand tons TNT equivalent. The Aries Star Palace, having spatial technology, undoubtedly has strong defensive power. To withstand a mere nuclear explosion should be... perhaps... possible... right?"
He muttered to himself.
To achieve a higher performance rating and secure a better reward, he had resorted to this Killing Move.
He hoped for a good outcome.
...
In another room of the Aries Star Palace.
Artifact Spirit Purple Sun went straight to the storeroom and began to search.
"Krypton Gold... Krypton Gold... I remember there’s quite a bit in the storeroom. Not to mention refining thousands of kilograms of Krypton Gold special elements, a few hundred kilograms should be no problem," he said to himself.
He quickly found several portions of krypton gold.
"Next is to heat these few hundred kilograms of refined special elements to one hundred million degrees, followed by fusion reaction."
Purple Sun acted efficiently.
He could tell that Gu Jinlai was using his modeling ability to carry out his own kind of speculation.
And he didn’t mind.
Heavenly Masters in themselves are bold innovators.
The stronger the Heavenly Master, the more so it is.
Purple Sun, as an Artifact Spirit cultivated by the Aries Star Lord, had somewhat inherited the creator’s way of doing things.
As long as Gu Jinlai’s speculation satisfied him, why not assist him in the simulation?
"All the Krypton Gold is here, next up, refine, Co-spirit."
Purple Sun said, his spiritual state seemingly merging with the entire Aries Star Palace.
The Aries Star Palace was never any war weapon.
Compared to the astonishing defensive power that not even an Earthly True Immortal could breach in a short time, its main function was as a spiritual amplifier and collector.
The Aries Star Palace itself could, by touching the True Spirit Realm, collect energy that was free in the True Spirit Realm, convert it into a spiritual reserve, and then amplify it through the Aries Star Palace, allowing one person to perform the work of ten, or even dozens of people.
All this while not having to worry about the consumption of spiritual energy.
In just one day, Purple Sun had completed the refinement of one kilogram of micro-elements.
"Very complex."
Purple Sun said, "My efficiency in refining spiritual materials is even better than a Heavenly Monarch who has made contact with the True Spirit Realm. With the power of the Aries Star Palace, the work efficiency increased thirtyfold, yet it still took a day to refine one kilogram of micro-elements... If it were another Heavenly Monarch contacting the True Spirit Realm, it would take fifty to sixty days to achieve this goal, and that too without worrying about the consumption of Spiritual Sense."
If it were not a Heavenly Monarch in contact with the True Spirit Realm, but an ordinary Heavenly Monarch...
It would take close to a year.
He glanced at the numerous krypton gold in the storeroom...
To refine all the special micro-elements in this krypton gold, it might take several months.
And the energy of the Aries Star Palace couldn’t support such intense refinement for several months.
"My goal is solely to complete the simulation for data collection, one kilogram it is then."
Purple Sun withdrew his gaze from the krypton gold and turned towards the kilogram of micro-elements he had refined.
"Next, is it to heat these elements through Co-spirit?"
He harnessed the power of the Aries Star Palace, infusing a massive amount of spirituality into the micro-elements in a manner akin to True Spirit Possession.
Instantly, the temperature of the micro-elements shot up drastically.
Thirty thousand degrees, one hundred thousand degrees, three hundred thousand degrees, one million degrees...
When the temperature reached one million degrees, Purple Sun already sensed something.
"The spirituality in these micro-elements..."
The micro-elements were undergoing a special change, seemingly aggregating and releasing energy.
But the rate of release was very low.
Just like burning charcoal.
The energy release in coal isn’t bad, but because it’s slow, it seems less powerful.
"Must it be several million degrees and above one hundred million degrees? And... these micro-elements, after being refined... are very light! These are among the lightest micro-elements I’ve come into contact with; because they’re light, their movements among each other are easier..."
Purple Sun observed for a moment.
To further increase the temperature of this one kilogram of micro-elements to several million degrees or above one hundred million degrees, he needed to utilize more energy from the Aries Star Palace.
But the energy stored in the Aries Star Palace was limited.
If he didn’t want this Heavenly Dragon arrival operation to end immediately, he had to reduce the amount.
With this thought, he reduced the one kilogram of micro-elements by ninety percent.
It was because he was fused with the Aries Star Palace and maintaining a Co-spirit state with these refined micro-elements from krypton gold that he could perform such precise operations.
"Ten percent, it really can only be used for experimental data collection," Purple Sun remarked.
The next moment, the intensity of the spirituality he infused surged, causing the micro-elements to vibrate violently under the stimulation of the spiritual power and releasing tremendous heat in the process.
This heat further altered their state of existence, something inside them separated, allowing their core parts to move freely.
Under free movement, certain parts of the micro-elements began to aggregate with other energies...
But due to some strong repulsive force in the universe, this aggregation seemed extremely difficult.
This scene made Purple Sun frown.
The next moment, he continued to strengthen the spiritual output.
The environment around the micro-elements changed again. The interference from the repulsive force in the element cores further harmonized, and when the distance between these element cores decreased to a billionth of a unit, the repulsive force was broken.
Another more powerful and domineering force ruthlessly intervened, seizing the micro-element cores that were originally in a repulsive state and then...
Smashed them together!
Nuclear power surged!
This sensation...
It was as if a spaceship’s engine had exploded at its limit, striving to escape a star with massive gravity.
But suddenly, the heavens spun and the earth turned, the rules of power rewritten.
What was escape became a plunge. 𝓃𝓸𝓋𝓅𝓊𝒷.𝓬𝓸𝓂
The spaceship’s own burst of power, the gravitational pull between the stars, the collision and superimposition of the two forces, made the already maximized spaceship crash into the star at a speed even faster than when it was escaping.
At that moment, an unparalleled terrifying energy burst forth in this collision, the speed of which far exceeded Zi Yang’s reaction.
As he observed this change, he instantly felt an unprecedented brilliant radiance, mixed with a terrifying energy that annihilated all spirit and thought, filling his entire field of vision in an instant.
Even the body he had formed from a large aggregation of spiritual energy proved ineffective in the face of such dazzling, splendid brilliance and annihilative energy.
His body disintegrated on the spot.
Like a sand sculpture in front of a tsunami, smashed into fragments in an instant.
...
Elsewhere, in the left, right, and front halls, Zi Yang, who had split his spiritual selves, was instructing the Heavenly Masters who consulted him for answers or sought his evaluation.
Suddenly, all the Zi Yang selves paused at once.
Immediately, their complexions drastically changed.
"Not good!"
They simultaneously stimulated their spirit, infusing every corner of the Aries Star Palace.
The next moment, a terrifying and violent quake burst forth from the depths of the Aries Star Palace.
The entire Aries Star Palace began to tremble at an extraordinarily alarming rate.
Even though there were spatial barriers inside the Aries Star Palace, people could still faintly see a brilliant radiance shining from the direction of the rear hall, carrying with it a fierce energy that furiously struck the entire palace.
"What is this!?"
The Heavenly Masters couldn’t help but widen their eyes.
"Buzz, buzz!"
Countless streams of light were activated.
All formations and restrictions inside the Aries Star Palace were fully engaged.
However, even in this situation, they couldn’t completely block that trembling and the intense light.
Amid the booming, some walls cracked and dust sprinkled continually down.
Some placed valuable porcelain and sculptures also dislodged, collapsed, and even shattered on the spot.
The sudden change had every Heavenly Master in the room widening their eyes.
"What happened?"
"This tremor... could someone be attacking the Aries Star Palace from outside!?"
"To cause such a huge commotion... An Earthly True Immortal has acted!? The legendary Master Wushi from the Sanqing Holy Temple in the Moon State!?"
Exclamations continually erupted from the crowd.
The Heavenly Masters’ eyes were filled with trepidation.
Not only the Heavenly Masters inside the Aries Star Palace were shocked and uneasy in this severe tremor, but the Heavenly Dragon Wood outside the Aries Star Palace, lying on the ground, quietly waiting for the process of the Aries Star Palace to end, was also abruptly awoken.
He suddenly stood straight up, widened his eyes, and looked all around as if facing a great enemy.
"Roar!"
A deafening dragon roar burst forth from his mouth.
The terrifying sound waves compressed the air, visibly distorting and exploding outward in all directions.
Even those experts who had cultivated True Qi felt their brains booming as if pierced by a massive force, involuntarily bleeding from their ears.
"Ah! What happened!?"
"The Heavenly Dragon Wood... how come..."
"Look at the Aries Star Palace! Quick, look at the Aries Star Palace!"
Cries and screams erupted from outside the Aries Star Palace.
The sight of the Aries Star Palace, already quite solemn and mysterious, now had lights flowing over it as all formations were fully triggered.
And after those formations circulated for a moment, a brilliant light mixed with intense Fierce Flames seemed to be spewed out by the Aries Star Palace, forming a massive column of light tens of meters in diameter that shot straight into the Yunxiao.
That kind of intense and terrifying power...
Not to mention the Refining God and Divinity Transformation Realm cultivators on the scene, even the Heavenly Dragon Wood had a grave expression on his face.
The resplendent, dazzling pillar of flame lasted for over ten seconds.
It seemed to pierce the atmosphere itself, casting the sky into a dark red before finally dissipating.
The Heavenly Dragon Wood immediately turned his gaze towards the Aries Star Palace.
"Zi Yang."
He roared lowly, "What happened?"
"Nothing."
A weak wave of Spiritual Sense fluctuated out from inside, "The experiment... had a bit of an accident."
"An accident?"
The Heavenly Dragon Tree glanced at the Aries Star Palace.
Even though the Aries Star Palace had activated all its formations immediately, most of these formations were external...
And that power came from inside the Aries Star Palace.
Under the impact of that power, the rear hall, used as an experimental and living area, had already collapsed by more than half.
This...
Does that call for an accident?
