After parting with Zhang Yu, Lin Tingzhi immediately went to find Zhong Tingzhi and Chong Tingzhi to discuss the matter, promising that the Celestial Mechanism Institute would be permitted another attempt as compensation.
Seeing that this concerned Celestial Xia's safety and was proper business rather than a deliberate move against them, Zhong Tingzhi and Chong Tingzhi said nothing further. After discussing it, they both agreed.
There was no need to bring such a matter before a court assembly. The various Tingzhi merely notified one another, and the decision was made.
After returning, Lin Tingzhi spent a day refining numerous protective ritual implements. One batch was sent to the Guardian of Rectitude Palace, while another was distributed to the garrison commanders of every continent.
Zhang Yu took the opportunity to distribute the talismans Lin Tingzhi had left behind to everyone stationed at Guardian of Rectitude. Those who had seen the divine anomalous creature could use them to eradicate its lingering imprint from their consciousness; those who had not could use them for protection.
This proceeded smoothly. The only ones who had captured the divine anomalous creature at the time were Ai Bogao and Jin Zhixing, so the matter had not spread. Upon receiving the talismans and learning the cause, both were alarmed by the creature's power and hurriedly erased its lingering shadow from their consciousness.
Thus, the attachments apart from the main body of this divine anomalous creature should all have been outside Celestial Xia's territory. And because its main body remained trapped within the talismanic vessel, so long as the Revival God Association members who had awakened it did not run about recklessly at this time, it would not spread too far.
Meanwhile, the Celestial Mechanism Institute was steadily preparing for its breakthrough attempt in late July.
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