Just like that, the next day arrived.
Inside Zhuge Qing's room, he was methodically assembling a strangely shaped machine.
This was the prototype of the Divine Mechanism he had painstakingly developed, drawing on some of the principles behind Reed Hayrick's ANIMUS and combining them with what he had learned.
The principle was simple enough: decode the information carried within energy, then convert it into visual data that could be directly observed.
He had to thank Orochimaru for how smoothly the machine's development had gone.
After all, in the world of Naruto, any random ninja had Chakra inside them—a ready-made sample of energy carrying individual information. It had provided a wealth of data to support the construction of his theory and the calibration of its parameters.
However, even after he had successfully developed the Divine Mechanism, he had been unable to find a suitable "test subject" for its final verification.
There was no other reason. For one's Primordial Qi to carry complete, decipherable information about an individual, one had to be a great master who had cultivated Triple Inverse Life to the level Zuo Ruotong had reached.
As far as he knew, the only person alive who had attained that level was the unfathomably powerful Old Heavenly Master of Mount Longhu.
But he couldn't exactly go straight to Mount Longhu and say, "Celestial Master, could I borrow some of your Qi for an experiment?"
He'd probably end up like old Lu Jin, knocked flat with a single slap on the spot.
So he had no choice but to put the matter aside for the time being.
But now, things were different.
He had a one-of-a-kind experimental sample in his hands.
At the thought, Zhuge Qing took a deep breath, then placed the Divine Mechanism Core containing that Primordial Qi into the