Disassembling the Eye of Truth

"Achoo--!" Zhou You sneezed softly and waved his hand to sweep away the scattered feathers.

"Feidian, stop bullying it. You're making the whole room full of feathers."

At this moment, Feidian was stretching out its claws, constantly plucking feathers from the Raven's body, almost plucking it bald!

The Yaya huddled fearfully at the edge of the cage furthest from the Feidian, trembling like an innocent girl who had been violated multiple times. It looked so pitiful and helpless, completely devoid of its former spirit.

Feidian was obedient, and upon hearing Zhou You's words, he indeed became much more restrained.

Thanks to it, the Raven became much more well-behaved, suppressing its mischievous and cunning nature, afraid that the white-haired beast would make fun of it again.

"Alright, stop pretending, come out."

Upon hearing Zhou You's words, the Raven's little eyes lit up. It quickly raised its claws and deftly opened the cage door, stepping out from inside.

Before Feidian react, the Raven suddenly pecked at its small head with its beak, then flapped its wings and flew into the air.

"Caw caw!" The Raven laughed wildly.

You wouldn't believe it, would you? I can fly!

Could Feidian tolerate this? He immediately leaped high into the air, his little claws flashing as if electrifying the void, aiming straight for the Raven's body.

Raven, the raven leaped upwards, but a tail feather was still snatched off by the Feidian.

It dared not provoke any further and hurriedly flew towards Zhou You.

Zhou You had already rolled up the parchment, casually tossing it upwards. The raven caught it mid-air, Raven the letter, and swooped out the window, soaring into the sky in the blink of an eye, disappearing beyond the reach of the Feidian...

"Caw~ caw~" came the Raven's cheeky voice.

Feidian clung to the windowsill with its two little paws, squeaking at the black dot in the sky. I couldn't understand what it was saying, but it probably wasn't anything nice.

Zhou You ignored the "harmonious and friendly" exchange between the two pets. He sat in his chair, placed the hardened Whale Rubber on the table as a paperweight, laid out a book of herbal medicine on his left, and pressed down a piece of parchment on his right, on which he continuously wrote something with a quill pen.

He was searching for medicinal materials that could serve as an adjuvant to Whale Rubber.

The Douluo Continent also has its own medical system. Using plants as medicine was an essential stage before humans entered modern medicine. Therefore, although the core theories of medicine are not entirely the same, the records of the medicinal properties of plants are generally objective.

However, in a fantasy world like Douluo Continent, the efficacy of medicinal herbs is often related to the concentration of Soul Power they contain.

To combine it with medicinal materials like the Ten-Thousand-Year Whale Glue, ordinary herbs definitely won't work; you need some herbs that have been around for a long time, such as those from Plant-type Soul Beasts.

In an ecosystem, there will always be consumers and decomposers around the producers. Therefore, the place where Plant-type Soul Beasts are located is often also the gathering place of other animal-type Soul Beasts.

Although Spirit City does sell some medicinal herbs made from Plant-type Soul Beasts, they are scarce and expensive. If the age of the herbs is a requirement, they are even more difficult to find.

Zhou You had inquired and found that even herbs made from a hundred-year-old Plant-type Soul Beast could only be found at auctions, and even then, the quality could not be guaranteed.

After all, the efficacy of medicinal herbs will decrease if they are not stored properly.

Unless you need it urgently, most people won't specifically buy it, and even if they do, they might not know how to store it properly.

Therefore, those who buy these kinds of products are usually professional Pharmacists, but these people generally have their own supply channels.

In short, in this era, which was largely at the level of medieval production, the herbal medicine trade generally did not involve high-age Plant-type Soul Beasts; large-scale transactions were still mainly involving common medicinal materials.

Fortunately, Zhou You had connections in the Star Dou Great Forest; otherwise, he might not have been able to collect what he wanted.

However, before the actual product arrives, he can only speculate on paper, and it will be difficult to make further progress in a short period of time.

After writing down several possible prescriptions, he put down his pen, decided to clear his head, and took out his Eye of Truth.

During this period of time, Zhou You tried to disassemble this Soul Tool more than once, but because this thing was too intricate, he hesitated every time.

He had almost no knowledge of Soul Tools, and if he couldn't reassemble them after taking them apart, the thing would most likely be ruined.

But research requires the courage to make choices. After much consideration, Zhou You realized that the Eye of Truth was not something he urgently needed at the moment, and ultimately decided to dismantle it.

He was extremely curious about how this thing worked on the inside.

However, the Eye of Truth is too small, only the size of a ping-pong ball, so special tools are needed to disassemble such an object.

Currently, there are no professions in the Douluo Continent that specialize in researching Soul Tools, so naturally, there is no such thing as specialized tools.

Therefore, Zhou You could only use the bamboo craftsman's tools that his family used to make umbrellas. Bamboo craftsmen have many tools for precision processing of small items, which were just what he needed for the time being.

He gripped the bamboo knife and inserted it along the seams of the Eye of Truth's outer shell, peeling it layer by layer like an onion.

This process is not easy. The finished Soul Tool is a dense structure with many closed structures that are difficult to unravel. Even if Zhou You follow its mechanical texture to disassemble it, you will still encounter many parts that cannot be disassembled under normal circumstances.

Whenever this happens, he can only resort to brute force, applying a layer of Sword Qi to the bamboo knife and forcibly cutting the connecting part.

In this case, it would be very difficult to reassemble it afterward. Since things have come to this, there is no other way but to go down this path.

At this point, Zhou You lost all his anxieties and focused solely on being a ruthless dismantling machine.

Seeing that the Raven had completely disappeared into the horizon, Feidian, bored, had no choice but to return to the house and lie down to sleep at Zhou You's feet, where he slept for the entire afternoon.

Despite its small size, the Eye of Truth has an extremely complex structure. It took Zhou You an entire afternoon to completely disassemble the outer shell and reveal the core inside.

It was a black truncated octahedron with a crystal-like luster; under light, the surface of this crystal was almost smooth and flawless.

However, Zhou You used his [observation] method, he discovered that the surface of the crystal was covered with tiny grooves that were difficult to see with the naked eye.

Their paths intertwine, seemingly scattered yet orderly. Upon closer inspection, one can see that these "gullies" are distributed and arranged with a purpose, revealing a rigorous sense of order.

It's just like... an integrated circuit!

With a thought, Zhou You maintained the [Observation] method while channeling Qi to his fingertips. In the [Observation] method's field of vision, the Qi was following the grooves and patterns on the surface of the crystal, as if passing through a dense electric grid, orderly guiding the Qi he was transmitting onto a predetermined track.

The next moment, the entire crystal lit up slightly, and Zhou You immediately sensed that an energy was emerging from the other "gaps" and eventually returning to him.

That was Mental Power; even after losing its outer shell, the crystal still maintained its basic function.

Without a doubt, it is the key component for the Eye of Truth to function, and the "grooves" on it are the fundamental reason why this component can produce an effect.

Zhou You was immediately invigorated and made a record of his discovery.