Back when Wang Daoyuan was in the Heavenly Secret Tower of Northern Abyss, he had asked a Great Power's divine sense imprint to help him improve the Spirit Gathering Bead.
At the time, that Great Power had warned him not to continue improving the Spirit Gathering Bead.
Even then, Wang Daoyuan had suspected that this thing involved the Dao of Heaven.
Now, it seemed that was indeed the case. If the Spirit Gathering Bead were improved any further, it would likely draw a lightning tribulation.
The Spirit Gathering Bead's defining feature was that its materials were simple and its cost extremely low.
Its flaw was its lack of durability. A single sharp drift by a flying vessel could shatter the Spirit Gathering Bead.
A round trip between the Seven Stars Sea and Northern Abyss Cultivation Worlds would cost several Spirit Gathering Beads.
A Magic Tool of such caliber would have no hope whatsoever of surviving a lightning tribulation.
He simply had never understood why a Magic Tool would suffer a lightning tribulation.
Even a peak seventh-order Magic Tool like the Myriad Spirit Pagoda had not suffered any attack when it was first forged.
Only when its artifact spirit had grown to a certain extent would it face a lightning tribulation targeting the artifact spirit.
A mass-produced Magic Tool like the Spirit Gathering Bead should not have faced a lightning tribulation.
"Senior Brother Zhuxing, why would this kind of energy-storage Magic Tool suffer a lightning tribulation?
"Ordinary Magic Tools, even seventh-order ones, do not suffer lightning tribulations right after they are forged."
Star Chaser Divine Monarch smiled. "There has never been a definite conclusion on this matter. There are all sorts of speculations.
"If it is merely a single energy-storage Magic Tool, it will not trigger a lightning tribulation.
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