Fang Chen carefully drew out a wisp of silver-gold Heaven and Earth Origin. Its glow was gentle and pure, like the first warm ray of sunlight piercing the clouds at a spring dawn, carrying an aura that soothed the mind.
He guided it toward the gray-white crack between the Ghost Immortal Emperor's brows and tapped it lightly with a fingertip.
The silver-gold light seeped into the crack as though it were alive, flowing slowly into the depths along the gaps in the Seal.
The Realm Spirit Clone held his breath.
The instant the silver-gold light entered the gray-white crack, the Ghost Immortal Emperor's body trembled slightly, like a limb frozen for too long instinctively contracting when lowered into warm water.
Under the silver-gold light, the gray-white mist along the crack's edges seemed to fade a little, like thin ice beginning to melt where drops of warm water fell upon it.
"It's working..."
The Realm Spirit Clone's voice trembled despite his efforts to steady it.
Fang Chen nodded gently. Without another word, he guided a second wisp of Heaven and Earth Origin into the crack, then a third, a fourth...
The first few wisps entered smoothly enough. Under the silver-gold light, the gray-white Order Force did slowly soften and break apart, like frozen earth gradually thawing beneath spring waters.
But as the seventh wisp entered, Fang Chen sensed something was wrong.
The gray-white Order Force seemed capable of repairing itself. Though the Heaven and Earth Origin could dissolve part of it, fresh gray-white mist slowly formed along the edges of the opening it left, filling the dissolved area like a scab growing over a wound.
The Heaven and Earth Origin seeped in at almost the same rate as the gray-white mist regenerated.
Fang Chen's brow gradually furrowed.
After guiding in the