"One last question." Huang Zhen slowly opened his mouth. "This pattern... where did you obtain it, young friend?"
"Before I was trapped in Variegated, I explored the Star Abyss and happened upon it on a Barren Star." Lu Ye gave the wording he had prepared long ago. There was no way to verify something like this anyway; whatever he said was what others would hear. "Perhaps it was a remnant from some starry sky."
Yet Huang Zhen slowly shook his head. "It cannot be a remnant from some starry sky."
Lu Ye did not know how he could be so certain. "Why is that?"
Huang Zhen said, "Remnants within the starry sky cannot involve this level. This pattern... counts as a Dao Pattern."
"A Dao Pattern?" Lu Ye was startled. "Lord Huang, are you certain this is a Dao Pattern?"
"Of course." Huang Zhen nodded.
Ziying, whose face was pale at the side, slowly spoke. "Lu Ye, you should know that once cultivators reach our Fusion Dao level, they all dabble in the Spirit Pattern Path. In a sense, Dao Patterns are a type of Spiritual Pattern, only a more advanced kind. They can bear the impact and condensation of Dao power, whereas Spiritual Patterns cannot. This is the simplest way to distinguish Dao Patterns from Spiritual Patterns."
If that was the case, then the Shared Breath, Connected Branches deduced by the Talent Tree truly was a Dao Pattern.
Lu Ye immediately thought of something else. "Then can I use this Dao Pattern as my foundation to advance to Fusion Dao?"
The key to advancing to Fusion Dao was a Dao Pattern. Every Fusion Dao cultivator had to go through this, but the hardship of inscribing Dao Patterns had left countless Ninth Layer Dao cultivators trapped without progress.
He had