Failure.
Failure.
Failure, failure, failure, failure, failure.
By midsummer, Heavenly Spirit Palace was filled with nothing but the stench of failure. Even cultivators who feared no heat found the sun somewhat irritating.
—Though those who felt this way spent virtually every daylight hour inside Heavenly Spirit Palace and never saw the sunlight.
To them, this summer was a true disgrace.
The Yuan Race cultivation method that the Conquest Envoy had obtained through painstaking effort had proved utterly useless. Not a single person had managed to enter through the gate.
The analysis of the Yellow Crystal pathogen had also ground to a halt.
The Yellow Crystal pathogen obtained from Agui Mu, a Yuan Race individual from the Third Yuan Prison, was indeed the same kind of pathogen as the Yellow Crystal pathogen controlled by Alu'er, the banished immortal of the Yuan Race. In the vast majority of tests, they displayed astonishing consistency.
But they had become completely unable to analyze it any further.
As for the analysis of the cultivation method... it too had ground to a halt.
Because it truly was nothing more than an ordinary Nascent Soul Method entry technique with a rather strange circulation route. If it could not cultivate the described mana, then the cause had to lie with the cultivator.
"It appears that the Yuan Race seals all its achievements within its bloodline... no, within some heritable trait. The cultivation method is merely the key that unlocks those achievements."
Having reached this conclusion, the Spiral Twin Venerables wrote in their report, "For ordinary Yuan Race cultivators, cultivation is not merely a process of 'creating spiritual power organs' to attain longevity. It is also a process of unlocking the various laws their ancestors sealed within their bodies."
"This line of thought may perhaps serve as a means