Stalled: The Battle Begins

Ice cave.

Zhu Yu suddenly noticed that the chill permeating the air had thinned considerably. After receiving word from his main body, he studied the infant curled on the stone bed with a grave expression.

"It stalled—"

According to the information his main body had sent,

Split Spirit had, in one sense, successfully taken over the infant's body. In another, it had failed. The infant had no independent, complete memories or reasoning, so Split Spirit had seized its body the instant it entered.

But this possession differed from every previous one.

The infant's physical makeup—or rather, its rank of existence—was so high that Split Spirit could not comprehend the body's information, much less fully merge with it. For now, it could only use True Sight Eye to block that information out.

In other words,

it had worked, but his main body lacked the knowledge to proceed. The infant could only be forced into a stalled state until it could be restarted.

"What the hell is this thing—"

Zhu Yu frowned as he examined it. He was certain it was no human, but it had no weird aura and was not a weird creature either.

"Forget it. I'll let my main body worry about it—"

Unable to make sense of it, he stopped trying. He gave the Myriad Soul Banner a gentle shake, and black light enveloped the infant.

The next moment,

a weight like an uprooted mountain bore down on him.

"Tsk. It's as heavy as a mountain—"

Marveling inwardly, Zhu Yu poured more black light from the Myriad Soul Banner and heaved the long banner upward.

"Collect."

The black light laboriously lifted the infant. Only after considerable effort did it manage to carry the child into the Myriad Soul Banner.

The instant it entered,

the Myriad Soul Banner's spirit