Excuse Me, What Do I Do If I'm Being Watched by Equilibrium and Memory?

A year had passed since Dan Lei settled in Golden People Alley, and for a Longevity Species, a year passed without any sensation at all. Now 193 years old, Dan Lei felt that a single year was shorter than a week used to be.

Throughout that year, Dan Lei had spent all his time setting up an array within his room.

Yes, to set up a formation that isolated energy fluctuations, Dan Lei had taken an entire year.

The Talisman Array Arts of the Xianzhou were actually all technology; energy operation was entirely handled by Nano Machines, having nothing to do with actual spellcasting.

The same principle applied when Pathstriders drew talismans on the spot. Their artifacts could all disperse Nano Machines, and since Pathstriders could directly draw upon the Power of the Path, combining it with these Nano Machines naturally allowed them to unleash various "spells."

The energy isolation formation was a basic application of Golden People Imaginary Energy Restraint Technology. Dan Lei had worked in the Ten Lords' Commission long enough to naturally know how to maintain Golden People. The year was mostly wasted on the workshop application process.

To apply for this workshop, Dan Lei had to actually develop a Human Form for entertainment purposes.

But Dan Lei could copy homework. Using the popular images from two XX Monsters that had been a huge hit in his past life, he launched a large number of Human Forms in various shapes, all controllable via Jade Abacus for battles.

These Human Forms were only thirty centimeters tall, couldn't be equipped with sharp weapons, and the energy they emitted was merely a shell with no real power, so they passed the Earthly Balance Department's safety inspection.

As expected, these Human Forms became popular in Luofu, a place that hadn't seen much change in centuries. Merchants even organized Human Form battle tournaments, and they sold extremely well.

So, thanks to the booming sales of these Human Forms, Dan Lei managed to convince the Ten Lords' Commission and the Earthly Balance Department to let him set up an energy isolation formation in his workshop, using the need for Human Form technology secrecy as his excuse.

Of course, this had a lot to do with the fact that the Ten Lords' Commission members sent to inspect him were Xueyi and Hanya, the two he had deliberately gotten closest to.

Especially Xueyi. There wasn't a single part of her body he didn't know; he had touched her inside and out countless times, and he had even privately performed some extra modifications for her.

After completing his preparations, Dan Lei entered a meditative state to communicate with the Holy Grail inside his body.

This thing had been coexisting with him for nearly two hundred years. Although Dan Lei still hadn't figured out how to absorb Imaginary Energy using Magic Circuits, besides letting it passively absorb energy through his body, he could also convert the Life Energy from his daily metabolism into magical power for it to absorb.

As a member of the Chizuru Clan, a Longevity Species, his Life Energy was terrifyingly strong. Although the Celestials of the Xianzhou were even stronger in this regard, the Dragon Clan was naturally superior to the Xianzhou Celestials in energy control.

For example, the Cloud Chant Technique of the Luofu Sustainer. This was a technique that didn't require becoming a Pathstrider; any Sustainer Dragon Clan member could learn a few moves with enough practice.

And the Cloud Chant Technique wasn't a technological spell; it was a true manifestation of the Sustainer Dragon Clan's innate ability to manipulate Imaginary Energy.

Of course, the Cloud Chant Technique ordinary Sustainer Clan members learned was completely different from what Dan Heng used in the game. His was the Cloud Chant Technique from the Dragon Transformation Secret Art, the difference being like what a sect leader's heir learns versus an ordinary disciple.

So, Dan Lei only had to slightly convert his Life Energy into magical power to touch the Holy Grail, and his consciousness easily navigated its way into that sea of flowers.

After all, having been in Luofu for so long, Dan Lei had definitely secretly studied the Holy Grail inside him.

But before it was fully charged, he could only come to this sea of flowers and stare blankly.

Because Yustina's projection was no longer here, there wasn't even anyone to talk to.

However, this time, after the energy was fully charged, a distinct energy distortion suddenly appeared in the center of the flower sea.

This was clearly the key. Dan Lei tentatively touched it with a thread of magical power, and a black-and-white block "painting" about his own height materialized.

Well, Dan Lei knew who this was. But why was the Aeon of Equilibrium, "Xa," inside the Holy Grail? No, he remembered now. When he had escaped from the Type-Moon World, he had seen "Xa"!

But just as Dan Lei was about to ask a question, this humanoid "Xa" vanished without a trace.

The next second, the gaze of the Aeon of Memory, "Fuli," suddenly crossed countless times and spaces to look at Dan Lei.

Dan Lei was certain that Fuli's gaze had been deliberately drawn here by "Xa." After all, he had gone unnoticed by the Aeon of Memory and Memokeepers for so many years; why would the Aeon of Memory suddenly turn its gaze on him now?

And when an Aeon cast its gaze upon Luofu, the Divination Department would detect it one hundred percent. Someone would probably come knocking to inquire about the situation soon.

So Dan Lei had no time to feel the changes after being stared at by Fuli.

Anyway, even the Final Lord existed in the Star Rail Universe; Fuli definitely wouldn't care about the plot in his head. As for memories from other worlds, if Fuli wanted to see them, let it.

For now, Dan Lei had to deal with the immediate situation.

So Dan Lei quickly withdrew from the Holy Grail, pulled a half-finished design drawing from his drawer, and prepared a plausible excuse for Fuli's sudden attention.

Sure enough, just after Dan Lei had faked his research scene, someone knocked on his door.

Although Fuli suddenly turning its gaze on Luofu was noteworthy, Dan Lei wasn't about to be treated like a criminal.

So the knockers were staff from the Divination Department and the Earthly Balance Department.

And they weren't any big shots; they were clearly just there for a routine inquiry.

Dan Lei knew both of them: Qingque, who slacked off every day, and an ordinary Earthly Balance Department patrol officer from Golden People Alley.

They were easy enough to fool. They didn't even look at the research drawing Dan Lei had prepared as an excuse; they just recorded the information and left.

Of course, Dan Lei strongly suspected that Qingque deliberately didn't dig deeper. For unimportant matters, she only wanted to finish work early so she could go back to slacking off.

But they weren't the last. Soon, Xueyi came knocking.

This time, Dan Lei directly shoved the half-finished design drawing into her hands. It was something he had drawn while studying the Cloud Chant Technique out of boredom, aiming to combine the Cloud Chant Technique with Human Forms.

This was a private personal study. As a member of the Sustainer Clan, researching his own clan's techniques within reasonable bounds was definitely not a problem.

So Xueyi just recorded it and left. After all, involving Sustainer Clan secret techniques, any recording would provoke protests from the Sustainer Clan.

Of course, the next day, a Dragon Master came to find Dan Lei and forcibly confiscated the drawing, stating that such research could lead to the leakage of Sustainer Clan secrets. This time it was forgiven, but he was forbidden from continuing.

Dan Lei knew this was just an excuse from the Dragon Master Council. They simply wanted to take his research results for themselves and secretly expand their underground power.

Dan Lei was too deeply entangled with the Ten Lords' Commission; the Dragon Master Council definitely wouldn't dare recruit him. They could only use this excuse to seize his work.

But Dan Lei didn't resist. For now, he just wanted to brush this matter aside. After all, that half a drawing was nothing but scrap. As for the Dragon Master Council, he would deal with them slowly once he actually had the strength.

After sending off the Dragon Master, Dan Lei waited another two days. Seeing that no one was paying attention to him anymore, he entered the Holy Grail again.

By now, Dan Lei had intuitively learned how to operate the Holy Grail.

It seemed that, under Fuli's power, this Holy Grail had become some kind of Memory Spirit of his.

And besides its original basic functions, the Holy Grail also retained the wish he had made back then: it could use the Root to take him across to other worlds.