For spiritual treasures of the Spiritual Root type, the refining process naturally could not involve the usual methods of burning with fire and washing with water.
What Styx needed to do was actually very simple: use a method akin to raising venomous insects, letting these Three-colored Lotus Platforms devour one another until only the final lotus platform remained.
Because they shared the same origin, there would be no rejection in their mutual devouring, and they could absorb one another rapidly.
This way, neither their origin nor their vitality would suffer the slightest loss.
And the Three-colored Lotus Platform that remained, having devoured 1.296 billion of its own kind, would surely have reached an utterly unparalleled grade.
Moreover, this final Three-colored Lotus Platform would still remain alive.
With that, a perfect vessel for a Thirty-Six-Petaled Green Lotus was ready.
Everything was in place; all that remained was the east wind!
Styx looked eagerly toward Pangu beside him. So long as he obtained the restrictions within the Chaos Green Lotus, he would absolutely be able to recreate a thirty-six-grade Chaos Lotus Platform, and it could even offer some aid to Wood Spirit's future cultivation.
As he pondered this, the Three-colored Lotus Platforms that had likewise been drawn to Styx's side had already begun devouring one another.
With quick eyes and deft hands, Styx fused a spirit body into one Three-colored Lotus Platform that had yet to develop intelligence, then injected it with a strand of mana.
While promoting the fusion of its spirituality with the lotus platform, this also elevated the Three-colored Lotus Platform's own grade, strengthening its chances of ultimate victory.
This spirituality was none other than the True Spirit of Styx's former Companion Spiritual Treasure, the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus.
After it had advanced into a Twenty-Four Grade Lotus