Again and again, Lu Ye tried; again and again, he failed. Yet he was not discouraged. On the contrary, he was full of enthusiasm, because every failure added to his experience.
The greatest difficulty in imbuing a Spiritual Aperture with a Spirit Gathering Spirit Pattern was the surging of his own Spiritual Power. The circulating Spiritual Power would wash the Spirit Gathering Spirit Pattern apart.
Therefore, if Lu Ye wanted to imbue a Spiritual Aperture with a Spiritual Pattern, he had to avoid the impact of his Spiritual Power. Otherwise, success was impossible.
But this brought up another problem. If the constructed Spiritual Pattern was too far from the Spiritual Aperture, it would not be very effective. For example, if Lu Ye constructed the Spiritual Pattern on his hand, it could gather Spiritual Energy when activated, but his body would find it difficult to absorb that external Spiritual Energy and could not convert it into his own Spiritual Power.
He needed to find a balance—one that would allow the Spiritual Pattern to function while keeping it stable.
Fortunately, the cost of constructing a Spirit Gathering Spirit Pattern was not high. Lu Ye had discovered this when he first obtained the pattern.
Two hours passed, and he still had not succeeded.
Lu Ye tried changing the shape of the Spiritual Pattern. Under normal circumstances, a Spiritual Pattern took on a flat form when cast. Unless one possessed extremely profound attainments in this field, it was impossible to alter a Spiritual Pattern.
Although Lu Ye had never studied the knowledge of Spiritual Patterns, when he obtained these patterns, a vast amount of information about them flooded into his mind, allowing him to understand all their mysteries.
As for the three Spiritual Patterns he currently possessed, Lu Ye had the ability to alter