Chapter 1640
Zhang Yu said, "According to your judgment, how long can this thing be held back?"
Daoist You discussed it with Lin Tingzhi, then said, "It is still impossible to determine. We believe that about half a month should be possible. Any longer than that would be difficult to say, unless we can find a way to break it."
Lin Tingzhi said solemnly, "Zhang Tingzhi, there is another matter. The more we investigate this thing, the closer it draws to us. Once we reach a certain point, we will be unable to continue. It would be best to ask someone else to refine the ritual artifact, so that we are not attached by this thing."
They were cultivators of the Dao of Seeking Completeness and believed they could withstand its attachment to some degree. At worst, they could dissolve this body. But this thing was strange and uncanny, and they feared that it might bring about some adverse consequence for Celestial Xia.
Zhang Yu pondered. In a little over half a month, it would be the yearly cycle of Origin Xia. It seemed Origin Xia also knew roughly how long this thing could hold them back. If it could not be directly destroyed or driven away, then they could only delay it for now—the longer they could delay it, the better.
But as his thoughts turned to this point, he suddenly recalled something.
He said to Lin Tingzhi and Daoist You, "If Origin Xia can wield this thing at will, why did they not bring it out earlier? And when their people attacked, why did no one come to cooperate with it?"
Following that line of thought, either Origin Xia itself feared this thing, or it was unable to completely control it. Perhaps both were true.
In that case,