If that had been all, it would actually have been fine. At the very least, with the support of two pieces of Red Equipment, Wanshang Ancestor's soul had remained stable.
And with the Red Equipment supporting him, he had also passed the Mechanical Ascension threshold.
The problem was that Wanshang Ancestor's Mechanical Ascension had run into another either-or choice.
One option was to digitize his soul and control countless Airships. The other was to keep his soul inside his body, mechanize the body, and turn it into a Mechanical Body.
Wanshang Ancestor wanted both.
In the end, something went wrong with the soul digitization meant to control countless Airships, turning the two souls into countless fragments.
They could only rely on the two pieces of Red Equipment to hold them together there, keeping the souls from being destroyed outright.
To preserve his own soul, Wanshang Ancestor thought of a method.
One soul would use the Red Equipment to work at maintaining the integrity of both souls, while the other came forward to handle other matters.
At first, this method worked well enough, but later on, it could no longer hold.
So he thought of obtaining more Red Equipment to strengthen his soul.
It was at that time that he accidentally discovered Red Equipment set combinations.
At the same time, he also discovered that destiny could keep his soul from scattering so quickly.
That was why he led the Wanshang Clan away from humanity.
They became an independent race, monopolizing that portion of destiny, and invited Lord Jun over to help pull his soul back whenever it scattered.
But this time, Lord Jun did not come. Only Gu Xi came. Looking at the soul shattered into pieces before him, Gu Xi felt an urge to turn all of it into Undead.