Holy Emperor looked at the ring before him, his expression somewhat unsightly.
To his senses, there was truly not the slightest trace of anything extraordinary about this ring.
Whenever a kind of spiritual power was bestowed upon matter, it would subtly alter the nature of that matter. In modern theory, different eigenstates of spiritual power caused minute changes in electron orbitals. Specifically, the energy levels of some or all electrons would be raised. And according to the exclusion principle, those elevated electrons would occupy higher orbitals. Such changes often altered chemical bonds, changing an object's physical and chemical properties.
And once the bestowed spiritual power vanished, those electrons forcibly raised to higher energy levels would slowly fall back down. Yet this descent was a slow process. It diminished on a scale of days.
In theory, as long as an object had once contained spiritual power, it would leave behind traces. In the eyes of an expert, traces from several days ago were exceptionally clear.
Ordinary cultivators did not know how to observe electrons. According to the uncertainty principle, electrons could no longer be perceived on the macroscopic scale. Holy Emperor had not reached the level where he could use spiritual sense to forcibly pierce the barrier between the microscopic and macroscopic. However, those microscopic differences could manifest on the macroscopic level. And such macroscopic sensations could be perceived by ordinary cultivators.
Yet Holy Emperor was astonished to discover that the material of this ring bore no overly powerful traces.
Even if this ring were a one-use super tonic pill, it seemed far too weak, did it not?
Either this ring had been drained dry long ago, or the power within it had been exceedingly weak from the very beginning.
—How could that be possible?
—If someone could help Guan Wuji