The Ritual Artifact had basically recovered its original appearance, but that was only on the surface. Damaged to that extent, how could it be repaired so easily?
For now, only the frame had been put back together. In essence, it was still rather weak, and needed a large amount of matter, rules, karma, and the like to fill it in.
If it wanted to reach its former peak state, that was not something that could be accomplished overnight.
But no matter what, with a framework to fill in, things were much easier. If an emergency came up, it could still unleash a critical strike.
Just like the earlier battle at Zhanling Mountain, as long as they were careful not to overdraw it too much, it would not count as a major problem.
That battle, together with the earlier repairs, had left Qu Jianlei with only three of the nearly twenty Guardian Rules he had possessed.
However, the True Venerables were not anxious about this. Once they began a large-scale conquest of other worlds, the Guardian Rules would be replenished.
Aside from still needing some time to be fully repaired, there was also the fact that as the Ritual Artifact recovered, it had begun to feel estranged from this world.
In the end, it was not a Ritual Artifact of this world. Some separation was normal, and since they all belonged to the Cultivation System, there was basically not much rejection.
That was the first change. The second change was that the senior Heroic Spirits were relatively less active than before.
The Ritual Artifact had no spiritual intelligence. It only possessed some dim awareness, and after its restoration, this awareness was roughly on par with Broken Blade.
Logically speaking, the Ritual Artifact's recovery should have been beneficial to those lingering obsessions—at