Inside the great hall, Chen Shouzhi looked toward Zhong Tingzhi and Chong Tingzhi, who were seated there, and said, "What did the two of you deduce?"
Zhong Tingzhi rose and made a Daoist salute. "In reply to the Shouzhi, although there were some setbacks at the outset, our deductions still showed that Heaven's workings favor us. This matter remains highly feasible."
Chen Shouzhi nodded and looked to one side. "Lin Tingzhi, I must trouble you to locate this person."
Lin Tingzhi made a Daoist salute from his seat, and in an instant his consciousness shifted to the Skywatch Platform where the Clear-Heaven Star Compass was kept.
He took out a token talisman and cast it downward. The sea of clouds beneath the platform immediately surged. Before long, a massive golden disk burst through the clouds, revealing itself as strands of golden starlight scattered outward.
Ordinarily, activating this instrument required several Void-Entrusting cultivators working together. But now that Lin Tingzhi had completed his Dao, even a mere avatar of his could easily operate it.
Yet before formally activating it, he still needed to do one thing.
Seated upon the platform, he sent a wisp of qi intent into the Clear-Heaven Star Compass, then turned his foundational Dao method.
Though the Clear-Heaven Star Compass originally shone brilliantly, after the golden light spread outward for a while, it gathered back together and became inactive. Sixty years had not yet passed, so its mechanisms could not be set turning again. This instrument had entered a half-dormant state and could only fully recover once the time came.
But under the turning of his foundational Dao method, the Dao mechanism quietly changed, though not by much. This method made the instrument believe that it had already recovered.
He was a master artificer and knew well that