From the end of the world

Chapter 775 Experiment on the Recombination of Divine Seal Fragments
Why did I think there was no problem with this at the time?

I remember now. Back then, I thought that the material existence of something like a fragment of a divine seal was irrelevant; what truly mattered was something metaphysical. So, even if I could use it for fire teleportation, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Of course, I no longer hold the same views as I did during my Great Completion stage. Even fragments of divine seals on a material level possess a transcendent quality—they cannot be touched or moved by those without the necessary affinity. This is a manifestation of the power of the divine seal fragments, which is also a form of true spirit power. Since it is closely related to true spirit power, it is impossible to allow my own power to change it at will.

Furthermore, when Lingyun implanted the Divine Seal fragments into experimental subjects as the core of their power, he always prioritized combining them on a material level. The logic that "the existence of the material level is unimportant" is simply too far-fetched. Moreover, in the past, I have countless times transformed them into my own flame, making them a form of magical power at the spiritual and soul level, capable of touching the metaphysical realm. If the true importance of the Divine Seal fragments lies in this level, then there should be something unusual about them.

"...How did you know that?" I couldn't help but ask Xiaowan.

Xiao Wan should not know that I was able to teleport with the fragments of the divine seal in the past.

“This is a clue I got from Yuchi’s experience,” Xiaowan said. “After he was killed by Shan Liangyi, the fragments of the Divine Seal remained at the scene of his death. Later, Shan Liangyi accidentally discovered them and took them away. After being resurrected, Yuchi was no longer an Apostle of the Void Realm… Brother Zhuangcheng, do you think this is a normal event?”

"According to your logic, should Yuchi continue to be a Void Realm Apostle after his resurrection?"

I first asked a question in return, then realized the problem: "Wait... yeah, why isn't Yuchi the one after his resurrection?"

"The Water Master Xuanwu also died once, but after being resurrected, he was still the successor of the Two Elements. The Xuanwu Seed did not return to the hands of the Mountain Two Elements, but reappeared in the Water Master Xuanwu's body." Xiaowan said, "According to the information that Brother Zhuangcheng obtained in the past, this is because the power seed of the successor of the Two Elements has the attribute of transcending time and space."

“From a very high level, all time is the same time. Therefore, if a deceased successor of the Yin-Yang lineage is resurrected in the future, then for the Power Seed, it means that the host never died, and the time of death will be skipped, and the power will be directly transferred to the future host.”

I continued her words: "The reason why the power seed possesses this transcendent quality is because the Mountain Yin-Yang as its essence has attained the legendary realm of 'Reincarnation.' The transcendence of the 'Reincarnation' realm, or rather, the transcendence of all legendary realms, is closely related to the 'True Spirit.' This higher-dimensional level is also the level where the power of the True Spirit resides... The power seed of the Mountain Yin-Yang possesses this quality, but the Divine Seal fragment, which also possesses the power of the True Spirit, has not shown any similar signs, which is very strange."

"This is because the 'binding' with the Apostle of the Void Realm is not an innate property of the Divine Seal Fragment, but rather a result of Tai Sui's own research," Xiao Wan said confidently. "To be precise, it was the result of his research when he was still in the Gospel Academy, as the Great Impermanence Tai Sui who couldn't even properly use his own power. At that time, he was not yet the Lord of the Divine Seal, so naturally he couldn't come into contact with the level where the True Spirit resides."

"Therefore, the binding between the Divine Seal Fragment and the Apostle of the Void Realm is naturally not bound to the True Spirit level. It is bound to our soul, so after Yuchi's soul was scattered, his Divine Seal Fragment was directly exposed in the real world."

"And Brother Zhuang Cheng, your body and soul often decompose into flames and are transported to distant places. During this process, the fragments of the divine seal will also decompose and recombine repeatedly... If they were hidden in your true spirit level, they would certainly not be affected in this way. But if they are hidden in your soul, it is inevitable."

I looked at the fragment of the divine seal in my hand and said, "But even if I can decompose and reassemble the fragment of the divine seal, I still can't understand its nature."

“The reason why Brother Zhuang Cheng was able to decompose and reassemble it is not because your ability has reached the level to complete this challenge, but because you were authorized to do so. This is granted to you by the authority of the seal holder,” Xiao Wan said. “But no matter what, it is an indisputable fact that you can decompose and reassemble the fragments of the divine seal. And all the fragments of the divine seal should have the same properties. Even the so-called ‘Doomsday Divine Seal’ and ‘Present World Divine Seal’ are just two particularly large ‘fragments’ compared to the complete divine seal.”

I felt my thinking had been opened up. "At the same time, as long as I have the power of the third gate, I can also forcibly interfere with the Divine Seal of the Present World to a certain extent. Even if I can't obtain the authority of the Divine Seal of the Present World, if I can simply use the power of manifestation to reassemble the Divine Seal of Doomsday and the Divine Seal of the Present World from their damaged parts..."

“There’s no need for ‘forced intervention.’ As long as the divine seal in the mortal world loses its master, Willow Shadow, it will become ownerless, and then Brother Zhuang Cheng can decompose and recombine it at will,” Xiao Wan said. “One of the divine seal fragments currently bound to me is the ownerless divine seal fragment that Brother Zhuang Cheng took out from his own flames in the past, isn’t it?”

"That's because I was able to put it into my own flames through the wooden box that Shenzhao gave me back then, right?" I said.

“That wooden box has the function of isolating external consciousness from contacting the internal objects, but that’s all it can do. At most, it can only prevent your consciousness from binding with that fragment of the Godless Seal. It can’t help you decompose the box and the fragment of the Godless Seal together into your own flames,” Xiao Wan said. “In fact, it would be strange if there hadn’t been a situation where only the wooden box was decomposed into flames while the fragment of the Godless Seal fell outside. That would be illogical.”

"At that time, you may have already exerted a portion of your power to integrate and penetrate things, so the wooden box was unable to completely stop you. At the same time, the 'binding' technology designed by Tai Sui could not recognize the spiritual nature you unconsciously exerted, so the automatic binding phenomenon did not occur... This is the only possible explanation."

Upon hearing this, I immediately took out one of the unclaimed divine seal fragments from the tiny nascent illusory realm and, without achieving a binding, attempted to decompose it into my own flame—and succeeded.

Everything was as Xiaowan had said.

Every detail was perfectly fitted, and there were even clues that I had never noticed before.

To further test whether I could repair the divine seal, I took out another unclaimed divine seal fragment and tried to merge it with the previous one.

The two unclaimed divine seal fragments simultaneously transformed into flames, converging together. Then, like molten iron cooling down, the orange-red flames solidified into a black jade stone.

The fragment of the divine seal was noticeably larger. Seeing her deduction confirmed, Xiao Wan breathed a sigh of relief, "It really can be done..."

"But... it's a bit difficult." I assessed my own hand strength.

The existence of this divine seal fragment is unstable. Although it looks like one piece, it feels like two objects with extremely strong magnetic force are forcibly spliced ​​together.

Not long after, the large fragment of the divine seal suddenly split in two, its shape exactly the same as the previous two fragments.

"Let's try again." I raised my hand once more.

After conducting numerous tests, I came to a general conclusion.

If I used two fragments of a divine seal that were bound to me, instead of two unclaimed fragments, the resulting larger fragment would be much more stable. The key difference might lie in whether or not I possess the authority to control the seal; the latter is more receptive to my recombination and shows no signs of automatically rejecting the splitting process.

The power of the divine seal fragments output from it will also become stronger. However, possibly due to the lack of a complete internal structure, and even the conflict between them, the power of the large divine seal fragment is only 1.2 times that of the original.

Like a complex jigsaw puzzle, combining unrelated pieces won't lead to anything good. Randomly reassembling a large number of divine seal fragments could cause disastrous consequences. Therefore, the best course of action for repairing the shattered Doomsday Divine Seal is through the power of its master. Repairing the Doomsday Divine Seal and the Present World Divine Seal would likely be much simpler. If there were only two pieces in the puzzle, there would be no need for such caution; they could simply be pieced together.

I also tested the method of recombinating the divine seal fragments bound to me and the unclaimed divine seal fragments. Through this simple simulation, it's possible to somewhat predict the recombination of the Doomsday Divine Seal and the Present-Day Divine Seal. The result is that the resulting large divine seal fragment can be maintained indefinitely, but my manifest power is required to provide the binding force.

Based on my intuition, I was able to discern the truth behind this situation—it wasn't because the two fragments of the divine seal were originally unrelated components. Ultimately, it was a repair forcibly completed using the power of spiritual manifestation. Using such power on items closely related to the power of true spirits would inevitably lead to some inconsistencies.

If I could fully understand the operating principles of the Divine Seal, this ultimate creation, this situation would probably never happen again. But it doesn't matter as it is now.

When combined with the bound divine seal fragment, the power of the unclaimed divine seal fragment can also be used normally by me. If I had to point out something that's not quite right, it's that I can sense that I haven't automatically gained access to the unclaimed divine seal fragment.

If I wanted, I could also obtain access to this unclaimed divine seal fragment through the authority of the Void Realm Apostle. However, if Xiao Wan becomes the master of the Doomsday Divine Seal, she can only provide me with access to the Doomsday Divine Seal lineage at most. Since the present-day divine seals are not subordinate to the Doomsday Divine Seal, they likely do not automatically acquire access. Otherwise, Liu Shuying wouldn't have pointed out that Tai Sui could not obtain all the divine seal permissions and repair the complete divine seal like herself, and Tai Sui wouldn't have tacitly agreed to this.

In other words, although I have the ability to obtain the power of the complete divine seal, I may not be able to keep it intact after it leaves me.

Most of the time, even making a wish upon the complete divine seal will be useless.

Based on my current testing, I have no problem releasing the power of the large divine seal fragment outwards, but when I try to gather it inwards, the repulsive force quickly overtakes the binding force. This seems unrelated to the form or application of the power; this phenomenon simply occurs. To truly repair the divine seal, one would probably need to possess full divine seal authority, like Willow Shadow.

After completing the test, I restored all the Divine Seal fragments to their original state.

“So, our plan for the future is roughly as follows,” Xiao Wan said, straightening her expression. “First, I will take the place of Tai Sui and become the master of the Doomsday Divine Seal. Then, I will authorize Brother Zhuang Cheng to use his spiritual power to merge the present world's divine seals.”

"Afterwards, I will probably become the soul of the Divine Seal, while Brother Zhuang Cheng will become the master of the Divine Seal, using the power of return after the complete Divine Seal is strengthened to save the world."

"To achieve this goal, we need to defeat the Mountain Two Elements and the Old Fist God who holds the Divine Seal of the Present World."

"The reason for defeating Shan Liangyi first is simple: we don't have enough Divine Seal Fragments right now. Although we have a total of eighteen, in order for Brother Zhuangcheng to support me in the conflict with Tai Sui, Brother Zhuangcheng himself must also bind at least one Divine Seal Fragment. In that case, I will not have enough Divine Seal Fragments to bind later, and I may not be able to meet the minimum number of Divine Seal Fragments required to summon the remaining ones."

"The Mountain Two Elements have at least three fragments of the Divine Seal. If we can seize them all, we will have at least twenty-one fragments of the Divine Seal, which will be more than enough."

"Finally—Brother Zhuang Cheng, are you willing to believe me?"

(End of this chapter)